John 4

MSTC^{(i) 1} As soon as the Lord had knowledge, how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptised more disciples than John - ² though that Jesus himself baptised not, but his disciples - ³ he left Jewry, and departed again into Galilee. ⁴ And it was so that he must needs go through Samaria. ⁵ Then came he to a city of Samaria called Sychar, beside the possession that Jacob gave to his son Joseph, ⁶ and there was Jacob's well. Jesus, then wearied in his journey, sat thus on the well. And it was about the sixth hour: ⁷ And there came a woman of Samaria to draw water. And Jesus said unto her, "Give me drink" - ⁸ for his disciples were gone away unto the town to buy meat. ⁹ Then the woman of Samaria said unto him, "How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a Samaritan?" For the Jews meddle not with the Samaritans. ¹⁰ Jesus answered and said unto her, "If thou knowest the gift of God, and who it is, that sayeth to thee, 'Give me drink': thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee water of life." ¹¹ The woman said unto him, "Sir, thou hast no thing to draw it withal, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that water of life? ¹² Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and he himself drank thereof and his children and his cattle?" ¹³ Jesus answered and said unto her, "Whosoever drinketh of this water, shall thirst again. ¹⁴ But whosoever shall drink of the water that I shall give him, shall never be more a thirst: But the water that I shall give him, shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life." ¹⁵ The woman said unto him, "Sir, give me of that water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw." ¹⁶ Jesus said unto her, "Go and call thy husband, and come hither." ¹⁷ The woman answered, and said to him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "Thou hast well said, 'I have no husband.' ¹⁸ For thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband. That saidst thou truly." ¹⁹ The woman said unto him, "Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. ²⁰ Our fathers worshipped in this mountain: and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship." ²¹ Jesus said unto her, "Woman, believe me; The hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the father. ²² Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship. For salvation cometh of the Jews. ²³ But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the father in spirit, and in truth. For verily, such the father requireth to worship him. ²⁴ God is a spirit, and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit, and truth." ²⁵ The woman said unto him, "I know well Messiah shall come, which is called Christ. When he is once come, he will tell us all things." ²⁶ Jesus said unto her, "I that speak unto thee, am he." ²⁷ And even at that point, came his disciples, and marveled that he talked with the woman. Yet no man said unto him, "What meanest thou," or "Why talkest thou with her?" ²⁸ The woman then left her water pot behind her, and went her way into the city, and said to the men there, ²⁹ "Come, see a man which told me all things that ever I did. Is not he Christ?" ³⁰ Then they went out of the city, and came unto him. ³¹ And in the meanwhile his disciples prayed him, saying, "Master, eat." ³² He said unto them, "I have meat to eat, that ye know not of." ³³ Then said the disciples between themselves, "Hath any man brought him meat?" ³⁴ Jesus said unto them, "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me. And to finish his work. ³⁵ Say not ye, 'There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest?' Behold, I say unto you, lift up your eyes, and look on the regions: For they are white already unto harvest. ³⁶ And he that reapeth, receiveth reward; and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: That both he that soweth and he that reapeth might rejoice together. ³⁷ And herein is the saying true, That one soweth; And another reapeth. ³⁸ I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labor. Other men laboured; And ye are entered into their labors." ³⁹ Many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him, for the woman's saying: which testified, "He told me all things that ever I did." ⁴⁰ Then, when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them. And he abode there two days. ⁴¹ And many more believed because of his own words, ⁴² and said unto the woman, "Now we believe not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is even indeed Christ, the saviour of the world." ⁴³ After two days, he departed thence, and went away into Galilee. ⁴⁴ And Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath none honour in his own country. ⁴⁵ Then as soon as he was come into Galilee, the Galileans received him, which had seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast. For they went also unto the feast day. ⁴⁶ And Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he turned water into wine. And there was a certain ruler, whose son was sick at Capernaum. ⁴⁷ As soon as the same heard that Jesus was come out of Jewry, into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him, that he would descend, and heal his son: For he was even ready to die. ⁴⁸ Then said Jesus unto him, "Except ye see signs and wonders, ye cannot believe." ⁴⁹ The ruler said unto him, "Sir, come away or ever that my child die." ⁵⁰ Jesus said unto him, "Go thy way, thy son liveth." And the man believed the words that Jesus had spoken unto him, and went his way. ⁵¹ And anon as he went on his way, his servants met him, and told him, saying, "Thy child liveth." ⁵² Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, "Yesterday, the seventh hour, the fever left him." ⁵³ And the father knew that it was the same hour in which Jesus said unto him, "Thy son liveth." And he believed, and all his household. ⁵⁴ This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, after he was come out of Jewry into Galilee.