John 4:1 |
When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John |
John 4:2 |
(Although Jesus Himself did not baptize, but [rather] His disciples), |
John 4:3 |
He left Judea and went away again into Galilee. |
John 4:4 |
And He had to pass through Samaria. |
John 4:5 |
So He came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob gave to Joseph his son; |
John 4:6 |
And Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from the journey, sat thus by the well; it was about the sixth hour. |
John 4:7 |
There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, Give Me [something] to drink. |
John 4:8 |
For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. |
John 4:9 |
The Samaritan woman then said to Him, How [is it that] You, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, who am a Samaritan woman? (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) |
John 4:10 |
Jesus answered and said to 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. |
John 4:11 |
The woman said to Him, Sir, You have no bucket, and the well is deep; where then do You get this living water? |
John 4:12 |
Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank of it himself, as well as his sons and his cattle? |
John 4:13 |
Jesus answered and said to her, Everyone who drinks of this water shall thirst again, |
John 4:14 |
But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall by no means thirst forever; but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into eternal life. |
John 4:15 |
The woman said to Him, Sir, give me this water so that I will not thirst nor come here to draw. |
John 4:16 |
He said to her, Go, call your husband and come here. |
John 4:17 |
The woman answered and said, I do not have a husband. Jesus said to her, You have well said, I do not have a husband, |
John 4:18 |
For you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly. |
John 4:19 |
The woman said to Him, Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. |
John 4:20 |
Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, yet you say that in Jerusalem is the place where [men] must worship. |
John 4:21 |
Jesus said to her, Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. |
John 4:22 |
You worship that which you do not know; we worship that which we know, for salvation is of the Jews. |
John 4:23 |
But an hour is coming, and it is now, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truthfulness, for the Father also seeks such to worship Him. |
John 4:24 |
God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truthfulness. |
John 4:25 |
The woman said to Him, I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ); when He comes, He will declare all things to us. |
John 4:26 |
Jesus said to her, I, who speak to you, am [He.] |
John 4:27 |
And at this [point] His disciples came, and they marveled that He was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, What are You seeking? or, Why are You speaking with her? |
John 4:28 |
Then the woman left her waterpot and went away into the city, and said to the people, |
John 4:29 |
Come, see a man who told me all that I have done. Is this not the Christ? |
John 4:30 |
They went out of the city and came to Him. |
John 4:31 |
In the meantime, the disciples urged Him, saying, Rabbi, eat. |
John 4:32 |
But He said to them, I have food to eat that you do not know about. |
John 4:33 |
The disciples therefore said to one another, Has anyone brought Him [anything] to eat? |
John 4:34 |
Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work. |
John 4:35 |
Do you not say that there are yet four months and then the harvest comes? Behold, I tell you, Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are already white for harvest. |
John 4:36 |
He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit unto eternal life, in order that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. |
John 4:37 |
For in this the saying is true, One sows and another reaps. |
John 4:38 |
I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor. |
John 4:39 |
And many of the Samaritans from that city believed into Him because of the word of the woman who testified, He told me all that I have done. |
John 4:40 |
So when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to remain with them, and He remained there two days. |
John 4:41 |
And many more believed because of His word. |
John 4:42 |
And they said to the woman, [It is] no longer because of your speaking [that] we believe, for we ourselves have heard and know that this One is truly the Savior of the world. |
John 4:43 |
And after the two days He went forth from there into Galilee, |
John 4:44 |
For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. |
John 4:45 |
Then when He came into Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen all that He did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast. |
John 4:46 |
He then came again to Cana of Galilee, where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain royal official, whose son was sick in Capernaum. |
John 4:47 |
When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and asked [Him] to come down and heal his son, for he was about to die. |
John 4:48 |
Jesus therefore said to him, Unless you see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe. |
John 4:49 |
The royal official said to Him, Sir, come down before my little child dies. |
John 4:50 |
Jesus said to him, Go, your son lives. The man believed the word which Jesus said to him and went his way. |
John 4:51 |
And as he was now going down, his slaves met him and said that his child was living. |
John 4:52 |
So he asked them the hour in which he got better. They said then to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. |
John 4:53 |
Then the father knew that [it was] in that hour in which Jesus said to him, Your son lives; and he believed, he and his whole house. |
John 4:54 |
Again, this second sign Jesus performed when He came out of Judea into Galilee. |