John 4

Christ and the woman of Samaria

Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John 2 (though Jesus himself was not the one who baptized, but his disciples), 3 he left Judea and went back again to Galilee. 4 And he had to go through Samaria. 5 Then he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Now Jacob’s well was there. Therefore, tired from his journey, Jesus sat on the well. It was about noon.

7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink” 8 (for his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food).

9 Then the woman of Samaria said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, are asking a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.

10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that says to you, ‘Give me a drink’, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water”.

11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing with which to draw, and the well is deep. Where then do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his children, and his livestock?”

13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I give him will never thirst, but the water that I give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to everlasting life”.

15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I will not thirst, nor come here to draw”.

16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband and come here”.

17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband”. Jesus said to her, “You have rightly said, ‘I have no husband’, 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. In that you spoke the truth”.

19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshipped on this mountain. And you say that the place where men ought to worship is Jerusalem”.

21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain, nor at Jerusalem. 22 You do not know what you worship. We know what we worship. For salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the time is coming, and now is, when true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father seeks such persons to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth”.

25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming, who is called Christ. When he comes, he will tell us all things”.

26 Jesus said to her, “I who am speaking to you am he”.

27 And then his disciples came and were surprised that he was talking with the woman, but no one said, “What are you seeking?” or, “Why are you talking with her?”

28 The woman then left her water pot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Is not this the Christ?” 30 Then they went out of the city and came to him.

31 In the meantime his disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat”.

32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat of which you do not know”.

33 Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”

34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work. 35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months before the harvest comes?’ I say to you, Lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest. 36 And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37 And in this that saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap for what you did not work. Other men laboured, and you have entered into their labours”.

39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I ever did”. 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed because of his own word, 42 and said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your word, for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world”.

Christ heals the officials son

43 Now after two days he left there, and went to Galilee. 44 For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honour in his own country. 45 Then when he arrived in Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast. For they also went to the feast.

46 So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him, and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

48 Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you see miraculous signs and wonders, you will not believe”.

49 The nobleman said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies”.

50 Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your son is living”. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken to him, and he went his way.

51 And as he was going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, “Your son is living”. 52 Then he asked them the hour when he got better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at one in the afternoon the fever left him”. 53 So the father knew that it was at the same time when Jesus said to him, “Your son is living”. And he himself believed, and his whole household.

54 This is the second miraculous sign that Jesus did after he had come from Judea to Galilee.