John 4
New International Version - John 4 << | >> 123456789101112131415161718192021 4:1 The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John, 4:2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 4:3 When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee. 4:4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 4:5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 4:6 Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. 4:7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, 'Will you give me a drink?' 4:8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) 4:9 The Samaritan woman said to him, 'You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?' (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. ) 4:10 Jesus answered her, 'If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.' 4:11 'Sir,' the woman said, 'you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 4:12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?' 4:13 Jesus answered, 'Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 4:14 but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.' 4:15 The woman said to him, 'Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.' 4:16 He told her, 'Go, call your husband and come back.' 4:17 'I have no husband,' she replied. Jesus said to her, 'You are right when you say you have no husband. 4:18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.' 4:19 'Sir,' the woman said, 'I can see that you are a prophet. 4:20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.' 4:21 Jesus declared, 'Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 4:22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 4:23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 4:24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.' 4:25 The woman said, 'I know that Messiah' (called Christ) 'is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.' 4:26 Then Jesus declared, 'I who speak to you am he.' 4:27 Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, 'What do you want?' or 'Why are you talking with her?' 4:28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 4:29 'Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ ?' 4:30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him. 4:31 Meanwhile his disciples urged him, 'Rabbi, eat something.' 4:32 But he said to them, 'I have food to eat that you know nothing about.' 4:33 Then his disciples said to each other, 'Could someone have brought him food?' 4:34 'My food,' said Jesus, 'is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 4:35 Do you not say, `Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. 4:36 Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. 4:37 Thus the saying `One sows and another reaps' is true. 4:38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.' 4:39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, 'He told me everything I ever did.' 4:40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. 4:41 And because of his words many more became believers. 4:42 They said to the woman, 'We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.' 4:43 After the two days he left for Galilee. 4:44 (Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) 4:45 When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, for they also had been there. 4:46 Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. 4:47 When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death. 4:48 'Unless you people see miraculous signs and wonders,' Jesus told him, 'you will never believe.' 4:49 The royal official said, 'Sir, come down before my child dies.' 4:50 Jesus replied, 'You may go. Your son will live.' The man took Jesus at his word and departed. 4:51 While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. 4:52 When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, 'The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour.' 4:53 Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, 'Your son will live.' So he and all his household believed. 4:54 This was the second miraculous sign that Jesus performed, having come from Judea to Galilee.