John 4:28-54

²⁸So the woman left her water pot, went back to the town, and said to the people,

²⁹“Come, see a man who told me everything that I have ever done. This could not be the Christ, could it?”

³⁰They left the town and came to him.

³¹In the meantime, the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

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

³³So the disciples said to each other, “No one has brought him anything to eat, have they?”

³⁴Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work.

³⁵Do you not say, 'There are four more months and then the harvest comes'? I am saying to you, look up and see the fields, for they are already ripe for harvest!

³⁶He who is harvesting receives wages and gathers fruit for everlasting life, so that he who sows and he who harvests may rejoice together.

³⁷For in this the saying, 'One sows, and another harvests,' is true.

³⁸I sent you to harvest what you have not worked for. Others have worked, and you have entered into their labor.”

³⁹Many of the Samaritans in that city believed in him because of the report of the woman who was testifying, “He told me everything that I have done.”

⁴⁰So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.

⁴¹Many more believed because of his word.

⁴²They said to the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this one is indeed the savior of the world.”

⁴³After those two days, he departed from there for Galilee.

⁴⁴For Jesus himself declared that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

⁴⁵When he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all the things that he had done in Jerusalem at the festival, for they had also gone to the festival.

⁴⁶Now he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. There was a certain royal official whose son in Capernaum was ill.

⁴⁷When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to Jesus and asked him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die.

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

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

⁵⁰Jesus said to him, “Go. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went away.

⁵¹While he was going down, his servants met him, saying that his son was living.

⁵²So he asked them the hour when he began to improve. They replied to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”

⁵³Then the father realized that it was at that hour that Jesus had said to him, “Your son lives.” So he himself and his whole household believed.

⁵⁴This was the second sign that Jesus did when he came out of Judea to Galilee.