John 4:29-54

²⁹“Come and see someone who has told me everything that I have done. Can he be the Christ?”

³⁰And the people left the town and went to see Jesus.

³¹Meanwhile the disciples kept saying to him, “Take something to eat, Rabbi.”

³²“I have food to eat,” he answered, “of which you know nothing.”

³³“Can anyone have brought him anything to eat?” the disciples said to one another.

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

³⁵Don't you say that it still wants four months to harvest? Why, look up, and see how white the fields are for harvest!

³⁶Already the reaper is receiving wages and gathering in sheaves for eternal life, so that sower and reaper rejoice together.

³⁷For here the proverb holds good — ‘One sows, another reaps.’

³⁸I have sent you to reap that on which you have spent no labour; others have laboured, and you have reaped the results of their labour.”

³⁹Many from that town came to believe in Jesus — Samaritans though they were — because the woman had said, ‘He has told me everything that I have done.’

⁴⁰And, when these Samaritans had come to Jesus, they begged him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.

⁴¹But far more came to believe in him because of what he said himself,

⁴²and they said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you say that we believe in him, for we have heard him ourselves and know that he really is the Saviour of the world.”

⁴³After these two days Jesus went on to Galilee;

⁴⁴for he himself declared that ‘a prophet is not honoured in his own country.’

⁴⁵When he entered Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, for they had seen all that he did at Jerusalem during the Festival, at which they also had been present.

⁴⁶So Jesus came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. Now there was one of the king's officers whose son was lying ill at Capernaum.

⁴⁷When this man heard that Jesus had returned from Judea to Galilee, he went to him, and begged him to come down and cure his son; for he was at the point of death.

⁴⁸Jesus answered, “Unless you all see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”

⁴⁹“Sir,” said the officer, “come down before my child dies.” And Jesus answered, “Go, your son is living.”

⁵⁰The man believed what Jesus said to him, and went;

⁵¹and, while he was on his way down, his servants met him, and told him that his child was living.

⁵²So he asked them at what time the boy began to get better. “It was yesterday, about one o'clock,” they said, “that the fever left him.”

⁵³By this the father knew that it was at the very time when Jesus had said to him ‘Your son is living’; and he himself, with all his household, believed in Jesus.

⁵⁴This was the second occasion on which Jesus gave a sign of his mission on coming from Judea to Galilee.