John 4

VIN(i) 1 Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although it was not Jesus who baptized, but His disciples), 3 he left Judea and went back again to Galilee. 4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. 7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said, "What? You are a Jew, and you ask me for a drink — me, a Samaritan!" (Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." 11 “Sir,” the woman replied, “You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then will You get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his cattle? 13 Jesus answered, "Anyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I won't get thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water." 16 Jesus told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.” 17 “I have no husband,” the woman replied. Jesus said to her, “You are correct to say that you have no husband. 18 for you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true." 19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I see that You are a prophet. 20 Our forefathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.” 21 Jesus said to her, "Believe me, woman, the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.” 25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When He comes, He will explain everything to us.” 26 Jesus answered, “I who speak to you am He.” 27 At this moment his disciples came up, and were surprised to find him talking with a woman; but none of them asked 'What do you want?' or 'Why are you talking with her?' 28 Then the woman left her water jar, went back into the town, and said to the people, 29 Come, see a Man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?" 30 They came out of the city and were on the way to him. 31 Meanwhile, the disciples urged Him, “Rabbi, eat something.” 32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about." 33 So the disciples asked one another, “Could someone have brought Him food?” 34 "My food," replied Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me, and to complete his work. 35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest. 36 Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together. 37 For in this case the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. 38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the hard work, and now you have taken up their labor.” 39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed two days. 41 And he abode there two days. And many more believed, 42 They said to the woman, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man is indeed the Savior of the world." 43 And after two days he left for Galilee. 44 for Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. 45 So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they too had gone to the feast. 46 So once again He came to Cana in Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. 47 when he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judaea, he went to him and begged him to come down and cure his son, who was at the point of death. 48 Jeshu saith to him, If signs and wonders you do not SEE, you will not believe. 49 The royal official said to him, Sir, come down before my child dies. 50 “Go,” said Jesus. “Your son will live.” The man took Jesus at His word and departed. 51 And while he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was alive. 52 So he inquired as to the hour when his son had recovered, and they told him, “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour.” 53 Then the father realized that this was the very hour in which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” And he and all his household believed. 54 [Now] this was the second [miraculous] sign that Jesus performed after going from Judea to Galilee.