John 4

Thomson^{(i) 1} When the Lord, therefore, knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John, ² [though it was not indeed Jesus himself, but his disciples who baptized] ³ he left Judea and went again into Galilee: ⁴ and as he must needs pass through Samaria, ⁵ therefore he cometh to a city of Samaria, called Sichar, near the piece of ground which Jacob gave to his son Joseph. ⁶ Now Jacob's well was there. And as Jesus, wearied as he was with the journey, was sitting by the well, [it was about the sixth hour] ⁷ a woman of Samaria came out to draw water. Jesus saith to her, Give me to drink; ⁸ [for his disciples were gone to the city to buy food;] ⁹ thereupon the woman of Samaria saith to him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a woman of Samaria? [For the Jews have no friendly intercourse with the Samaritans.] ¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her, If thou hadst known the bounty of God, and who it is who saith to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. ¹¹ The woman saith to him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; whence then hast thou this living water? ¹² Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well, and drank thereof, himself, and his children, and his cattle? ¹³ In reply to which, Jesus said to her, every one who drinketh of this water will thirst again; ¹⁴ but whosoever shall drink of the water which I will give him, will never thirst. But the water which I will give him, will be in him a fountain of water springing up for an everlasting life. ¹⁵ The woman saith to him, O, sir, give me that water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw. ¹⁶ Jesus saith to her, Go, call thy husband and come hither. ¹⁷ The woman in reply said, I have no husband. Jesus saith to her, Thou art right in saying, I have no husband: ¹⁸ for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband. In this thou hast spoken truth. ¹⁹ The woman saith to him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. ²⁰ Our fathers have usually worshipped on this mountain; but you say, that at Jerusalem is the place where worship ought to be performed. ²¹ Jesus saith to her, Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father, neither on this mountain, nor at Jerusalem. ²² You worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know: for salvation is of the Jews. ²³ But the hour is coming; indeed is now come, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. For such worshippers of him the Father seeketh. ²⁴ God is Spirit; and they who worship him ought to worship him in spirit and truth. ²⁵ The woman saith to him, I know that the Messias [he who is called the Christ] is coming. When he is come he will tell us all things. ²⁶ Jesus saith to her, I who am speaking to thee am he. ²⁷ [Now at that instant his disciples came and wondered at his talking with the woman, yet none of them said, What seekest thou? Or why talkest thou with her?] ²⁸ Thereupon the woman left her pitcher, and went to the city, and saith to the men, ²⁹ Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Is this the Christ? ³⁰ Therefore they of the city set out and were coming to him. ³¹ Now in the mean while his disciples entreated him, saying, Rabbi, eat. ³² But he said to them; I have meat to eat which you do not know. ³³ His disciples therefore said to one another, Hath any one brought him food? ³⁴ Jesus saith to them, It is my food to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work. ³⁵ Do you not say, Yet four months, and the harvest cometh. Behold I say to you, Lift up your eyes and view the fields; for they are already white for harvest. ³⁶ And he who reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit for an everlasting life, that he who soweth, and he who reapeth, may rejoice together. ³⁷ For herein is that saying verified, that one soweth, and another reapeth. ³⁸ I have sent you to reap that on which you bestowed no labour. Others have laboured and you have entered on their labours. ³⁹ Now many of the Samaritans of that city believed in him, on the testimony of the woman who said, He told me all that I ever did. ⁴⁰ Therefore, when these Samaritans came, they intreated him to tarry with them. So he stayed there two days. ⁴¹ And many more believed, because of what he himself spake, ⁴² and they said to the woman, It is not now on account of thy talk that we believe; for we ourselves have heard and we know that he is indeed the Saviour of the world, the Christ. ⁴³ Now after the two days he departed thence, and went to Galilee, [but not directly to Nazareth] ⁴⁴ for Jesus himself had testified that a prophet is not honoured in his native place. ⁴⁵ Therefore when he came to Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all that he had done at Jerusalem, during the festival. For they also went up to the festival. ⁴⁶ Jesus therefore went again to Cana of Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain officer of the king, whose son was sick at Capernaum. ⁴⁷ This person, upon hearing that Jesus was come from Judea to Galilee, went to him and intreated him to go down and cure his son; for he was at the point of death. ⁴⁸ Jesus therefore said to him, Unless you see signs and wonders, can you not believe? ⁴⁹ The officer saith to him, Sir, Come down before my child die. ⁵⁰ Jesus saith to him, Go home: thy son liveth. And the man believed the word which Jesus spake to him, and went away. ⁵¹ And as he was going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, Thy son liveth. ⁵² Whereupon he inquired of them at what hour he began to mend. And they told him, that yesterday, at seven o'clock, the fever left him. ⁵³ So the father knew that it was the very time when Jesus said to him, Thy son liveth, and he and his whole family believed. ⁵⁴ This second miracle Jesus performed on his second coming from Judea to Galilee.