John 4:35-51

³⁵Do you not say, ‘There are four months before the harvest comes?’ Well I say, Look! Lift your eyes and observe the fields; they are white for harvest already!

³⁶Now he who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit into eternal life, so that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

³⁷Now the saying, ‘One is the sower and another the reaper,’ is true in this:

³⁸I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labors.”

³⁹Now many of the Samaritans from that city believed into Him because of the word of the woman, testifying that “He told me everything I ever did!”

⁴⁰So when the Samaritans came to Him they urged Him to stay with them; and He did stay there two days.

⁴¹Many more believed through His own word,

⁴²and they kept saying to the woman, “It is not just because of what you said that we believe, because we ourselves have heard Him, and we know that this One is truly the Messiah, the Savior of the world!”

⁴³So after the two days He departed from there and went on into Galilee.

⁴⁴(For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet does not have honor in his own country.)

⁴⁵So when He came into Galilee the Galileans welcomed Him, having seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem, at the festival; for they too had gone to the festival.

⁴⁶So Jesus went again to Cana of Galilee, where He made the water wine. Now there was a certain royal official whose son was sick in Capernaum.

⁴⁷When this man heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

⁴⁸So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders you will not believe!”

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

⁵⁰Jesus says to him, “Go; your son lives.” Well the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and off he went.

⁵¹Now while he was still going down his slaves met him and reported saying, “Your son lives!”