| | 1 | The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John, | |
| | 2 | although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. | |
| | 3 | When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee. | |
| | 4 | Now he had to go through Samaria. | |
| | 5 | So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. | |
| | 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. | |
| | 7 | When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?" | |
| | 8 | (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) | |
| | 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.) | |
| | 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." | |
| | 11 | "Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? | |
| | 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?" | |
| | 13 | Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, | |
| | 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." | |
| | 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." | |
| | 16 | He told her, "Go, call your husband and come back." | |
| | 17 | "I have no husband," she replied. Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband. | |
| | 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." | |
| | 19 | "Sir," the woman said, "I can see that you are a prophet. | |
| | 20 | Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem." | |
| | 21 | Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. | |
| | 22 | You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. | |
| | 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. | |
| | 24 | God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." | |
| | 25 | The woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us." | |
| | 26 | Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am he." | |
| | 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?" | |
| | 28 | Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, | |
| | 29 | "Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?" | |
| | 30 | They came out of the town and made their way toward him. | |
| | 31 | Meanwhile his disciples urged him, "Rabbi, eat something." | |
| | 32 | But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about." | |
| | 33 | Then his disciples said to each other, "Could someone have brought him food?" | |
| | 34 | "My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. | |
| | 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. | |
| | 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. | |
| | 37 | Thus the saying 'One sows and another reaps' is true. | |
| | 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." | |
| | 39 | Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did." | |
| | 40 | So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. | |
| | 41 | And because of his words many more became believers. | |
| | 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." | |
| | 43 | After the two days he left for Galilee. | |
| | 44 | (Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) | |
| | 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. | |
| | 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. | |
| | 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. | |
| | 48 | "Unless you people see miraculous signs and wonders," Jesus told him, "you will never believe." | |
| | 49 | The royal official said, "Sir, come down before my child dies." | |
| | 50 | Jesus replied, "You may go. Your son will live." The man took Jesus at his word and departed. | |
| | 51 | While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. | |
| | 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." | |
| | 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. | |
| | 54 | This was the second miraculous sign that Jesus performed, having come from Judea to Galilee. | |
