John 4:34-50

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

³⁵You would say, Four months from now is the time of the grain-cutting. Take a look, I say to you, at the fields; they are even now white for cutting.

³⁶He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.

³⁷In this the saying is a true one, One does the planting, and another gets in the grain.

³⁸I sent you to get in grain which you had no hand in planting: other men did that work, and you take the reward.

³⁹Now a number of the people of that town had faith in him because of the woman's witness: He has been talking to me of everything I ever did.

⁴⁰So when the people came to him they made request to him to be among them for a time, and he was there two days.

⁴¹And a great number more of them came to have faith in him because of what he himself said.

⁴²And they said to the woman, Now we have faith, but not because of your story: we ourselves have given ear to his words, and we are certain that he is truly the Saviour of the world.

⁴³And after the two days he went on from there into Galilee.

⁴⁴For Jesus himself said that a prophet has no honour in the country of his birth.

⁴⁵So when he came into Galilee, the Galilaeans took him to their hearts because of the things which they had seen him do in Jerusalem at the feast — they themselves having been there at the feast.

⁴⁶So he came to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain man of high position whose son was ill at Capernaum.

⁴⁷When it came to his ears that Jesus had come from Judaea into Galilee, he went to him and made a request that he would come down to his son, who was near to death, and make him well.

⁴⁸Then Jesus said to him, You will not have faith if you do not see signs and wonders.

⁴⁹The man said, Sir, come down before my boy is dead.

⁵⁰And Jesus said, Go in peace; your son is living. The man had faith in the word which Jesus said to him and went away.