John 4:4-51

⁴And he must necessarily pass through Samaria.

⁵He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the piece of land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

⁶And Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with the journey, was sitting thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

⁷There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith to her, Give me to drink.

⁸For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

⁹The Samaritan woman saith to him, How is it that thou, who art a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a Samaritan woman? For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

¹⁰Jesus answered and said to her, If thou hadst known the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

¹¹The woman saith to him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Whence hast thou the living water?

¹²Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle?

¹³Jesus answered and said to her, Every one that drinketh of this water, will thirst again;

¹⁴but whoever drinketh of the water that I will give him, will never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become within him a well of water springing up to everlasting life.

¹⁵The woman saith to him, Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.

¹⁶He saith to her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

¹⁷The woman answered, I have no husband. Jesus saith to her, Thou saidst well, that thou hast no husband.

¹⁸For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband; in this thou hast spoken truly.

¹⁹The woman saith to him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

²⁰Our fathers worshipped on this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

²¹Jesus saith to her, Believe me, woman, the hour is coming, when ye shall neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father.

²²Ye worship that which ye know not; we worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

²³But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for such worshippers the Father seeketh.

²⁴God is a spirit; and they who worship must worship in spirit and in truth.

²⁵The woman saith to him, I know that Messiah cometh (who is called Christ); when he hath come, he will tell us all things.

²⁶Jesus saith to her, I who speak to thee am he.

²⁷And upon this his disciples came, and marveled that he was talking with a woman. Yet no one said, What dost thou seek? or, Why dost thou talk with her?

²⁸The woman then left her water-pot, and went away into the city, and saith to the men,

²⁹Come, see a man who told me all things which I have done. Is this the Christ?

³⁰They went out of the city, and came to him.

³¹In the mean while the disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, eat.

³²But he said to them, I have food to eat that ye know not of.

³³The disciples therefore said to one another, Hath any one brought him anything to eat?

³⁴Jesus saith to them, My food is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

³⁵Do ye not say, There are yet four months, and the harvest cometh? Lo! I say to you, lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest.

³⁶Already is the reaper receiving wages, and gathering fruit unto everlasting life; that both the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

³⁷And herein is fulfilled the true saying, One soweth, and another reapeth.

³⁸I have sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored. Others have labored, and ye have entered into their labor.

³⁹And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in him because of the words of the woman, who testified, He told me all things which I have done.

⁴⁰When therefore the Samaritans came to him, they besought him to remain with them; and he remained there two days.

⁴¹And many more believed on account of his word;

⁴²and said to the woman, No longer do we believe on account of what thou hast told us; for we have ourselves heard him, and know that this is in truth the Saviour of the world.

⁴³And after the two days he went from that place into Galilee.

⁴⁴For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honor in his own country.

⁴⁵When therefore he came into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all that he did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they also went to the feast.

⁴⁶So he came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick, at Capernaum.

⁴⁷He, having heard that Jesus had come out of Judaea into Galilee, went to him, and asked him to go down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death.

⁴⁸Then Jesus said to him, Unless ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.

⁴⁹The nobleman saith to him, Sir, come down before my child die.

⁵⁰Jesus saith to him, Go; thy son liveth. The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and went away.

⁵¹And as he was now going down, the servants met him, and brought word that his child was living.