John 4:34-53

³⁴Jesus told them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to accomplish His work.

³⁵Don’t you say, ‘It’s still four months until the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.

³⁶He who harvests is already receiving wages, and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that he who plants and he who harvests may rejoice together.

³⁷Thus the saying ‘One plants and another harvests’ is true.

³⁸I sent you to harvest that for which you didn’t labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

³⁹Many Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything that I ever did.”

⁴⁰So when the Samaritans arrived, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed there two days.

⁴¹Many more believed because of His words.

⁴²They told the woman, “It’s no longer just because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world, the Christ.”

⁴³After the two days, He departed from there and went to Galilee,

⁴⁴for Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

⁴⁵When He arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him. They had seen all that He had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, for they had been there, too.

⁴⁶Therefore He came back to Cana of Galilee, where He had made the water wine. There was a certain royal official, whose son was sick at Capernaum.

⁴⁷When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and begged Him to come down and heal his son, who was at the point of death.

⁴⁸Jesus told him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe.”

⁴⁹The royal official said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!”

⁵⁰Jesus told him, “Go in peace. Your son lives.” So the man believed the words that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.

⁵¹As he was still going down the road, his servants met him, saying that his son was living.

⁵²So he asked them the hour when he began to recover, and they told him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him.”

⁵³The father realized that it was at that hour that Jesus told him, “Your son lives,” and he himself believed, along with his whole household.