John 4

1 When the Lord realized that the Pharisees were aware that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John

2 (although it was not Jesus who baptized, but His disciples),

3 He left Judea and went away to Galilee.

4 Now He had to pass through Samaria.

5 So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

6 Since Jacob’s well was there, Jesus, weary from His 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, “Give Me a drink.”

8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

9 “You are a Jew,” said the woman. “How can You ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

10 Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

11 “Sir,” the woman replied, “You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then will You get this living water?

12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock?”

13 Jesus said to her, “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 fount of water springing up to eternal life.”

15 The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water so that I will not get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

16 Jesus told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”

17 “I have no husband,” the woman replied. Jesus said to her, “You are correct to say that you have no husband.

18 In fact, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. You have spoken truthfully.”

19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I see that You are a prophet.

20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.”

21 “Believe Me, woman,” Jesus replied, “a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.

23 But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him.

24 God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him 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 Jesus answered, “I who speak to you am He.”

27 Just then His disciples returned and were surprised that He was speaking with a woman. But no one asked Him, “What do You want from her?” or “Why are You talking with her?”

28 Then the woman left her water jar, went back into 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 So they left the town and made their way toward Jesus.

31 Meanwhile the disciples urged Him, “Rabbi, eat something.”

32 But He told them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”

33 So the disciples asked one another, “Could someone have brought Him food?”

34 Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.

35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.

36 Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that both the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

37 For in this case 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 now you have taken up their labor.”

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

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

41 And many more believed because of His message.

42 They said to the woman, “We now believe not only because of your words; we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man truly is the Christ, the Savior of the world.”

43 After two days, Jesus left and went to Galilee.

44 Now He Himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.

45 Yet when He arrived, the Galileans welcomed Him. They had seen all the great things He had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they had gone there as well.

46 So once again Jesus came to Cana in Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum.

47 When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged Him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die.

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

49 “Sir,” the official said, “come down before my child dies.”

50 “Go,” said Jesus. “Your son will live.” The man took Jesus at His word and departed.

51 And while he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news: “Your boy is alive.”

52 So he inquired as to the hour when his son had recovered, and they told him, “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour.”

53 Then the father realized that this was the very hour in which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” And he and all his household believed.

54 This was now the second sign that Jesus performed after coming from Judea into Galilee.

1 ¶ When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,

2 (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)

3 He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.

4 ¶ And he must needs go through Samaria.

5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with [his] journey, sat thus on the well: [and] it was about the sixth hour.

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

8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)

9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

10 Jesus answered and said unto her, ‹If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.›

11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

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

13 Jesus answered and said unto her, ‹Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:›

14 ‹But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.›

15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.

16 Jesus saith unto her, ‹Go, call thy husband, and come hither.›

17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, ‹Thou hast well said, I have no husband:›

18 ‹For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.›

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

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

21 Jesus saith unto her, ‹Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.›

22 ‹Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.›

23 ‹But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.›

24 ‹God› [is] ‹a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship› [him] ‹in spirit and in truth.›

25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.

26 Jesus saith unto her, ‹I that speak unto thee am› [he].

27 ¶ And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?

28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,

29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?

30 Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.

31 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.

32 But he said unto them, ‹I have meat to eat that ye know not of.›

33 Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him [ought] to eat?

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

35 ‹Say not ye, There are yet four months, and› [then] ‹cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.›

36 ‹And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.›

37 ‹And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.›

38 ‹I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.›

39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.

40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.

41 And many more believed because of his own word;

42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard [him] ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.

43 ¶ Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.

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

45 Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.

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

47 When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.

48 Then said Jesus unto him, ‹Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.›

49 The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.

50 Jesus saith unto him, ‹Go thy way; thy son liveth.› And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.

51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told [him], saying, Thy son liveth.

52 Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

53 So the father knew that [it was] at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, ‹Thy son liveth:› and himself believed, and his whole house.

54 This [is] again the second miracle [that] Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea into Galilee.

1 When therefore the LORD knew that the Pharisees were come before, how that Jesus made and baptized disciples more than John

2 (although JEsus himself did not baptize, but his disciples),

3 He left the land of Judea and went back to Galilee.

4 But he had to pass through Samaria.

5 And he came to a city of Samaria, which is called Shechar, near unto the little village which Jacob gave to Joseph his son.

6 And there was Jacob's well. And when Jesus was weary with his journey, he sat down upon the well: and it was about the sixth hour.

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

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

9 Then saith the Samaritan woman unto him, How askest thou of me to drink, seeing thou art a Jew, and I a Samaritan woman? (For the Jews have no fellowship with the Samaritans.)

10 And JESUS answering said unto her, If thou knowest the gift of GOD, and who he is that saith unto thee, Give me to drink, ask of him, and he will give thee living water.

11 The woman saith unto him, Lord, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then hast thou living water?

12 Art thou more than our father Jacob, which gave us this well, and he drank thereof, and his children, and his cattle?

13 And JEsus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:

14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst: but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

15 The woman saith unto him, Lord, give me the same water, that I thirst not, that I come not to draw.

16 And JEsus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

17 And the woman answered and said unto him, I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her, Thou hast said rightly, I have no husband.

18 Five husbands thou hast had, and he whom thou hast now is not thy husband. You said it right.

19 And the woman saith unto him, Lord, I see that thou art a prophet.

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

21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the time cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father.

22 Ye know not what ye worship: but we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

22 And he inquired of them the hour when he was better. And they said unto him, Yesterday about the seventh hour. The fever left him.

23 But the time cometh, and is now, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father will have them also that worship him so.

24 God is a spirit, and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.

25 And the woman saith unto him, I know that the Messiah cometh, which is called Christ. When he cometh, he shall tell us all things.

26 Jesus saith unto her: I am he that speaketh unto thee.

27 And upon him came his disciples, and they marvelled that he spake unto the woman? But no man said, What askest thou? or, What speakest thou unto her?

28 And the woman left her pitcher, and went into the city, and spake unto the people:

29 Come, behold a man, which hath told me all things that I have done, whether he be not Christ.

30 And they went out of the city, and came unto him.

31 And meanwhile the disciples exhorted him, saying: Rabbi, eat!

32 But he said to them: I have food to eat, but you do not know it.

33 Then said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him meat?

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

35 Say ye not yourselves, There are yet four months, and the harvest shall come? Behold, I say unto you: Lift up your eyes, and look into the field: for it is white already for harvest;

36 And he that reapeth receiveth reward, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

37 For here is the saying true, This man soweth, and that man reapeth.

38 I have sent you to cut that which ye have not wrought: others have wrought, and ye are come into their work.

39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the woman's words, which testified, saying, He hath told me all that I have done.

40 And when the Samaritans came unto him, they besought him to tarry with them. And he abode there two days.

41 And many more believed because of his word.

42 And they said unto the woman: We believe not henceforth because of thy saying: for we have heard and known that this is truly Christ, the Saviour of the world.

43 And after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.

44 For he himself, JESUS, bare witness that a prophet is of no account at home.

45 And when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, which had seen all that he did in Jerusalem at the feast. For they also were come to the feast.

46 And JEsus came again to Cana of Galilee, having made the water wine.

47 And there was a certain king whose son was sick at Capernaum. And when he heard that Jesus was come out of Judea of Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down and heal his son: for he was sick unto death.

48 And JESUS said unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.

49 And the king said unto him, Lord, come down before my child dieth.

51 And as he went down, his servants met him, and told him, saying: Thy child liveth.

53 And the father perceived that it was about the hour in the which Jesus had said unto him, Thy son liveth. And he believed with all his house.

54 Now this is the other sign which JEsus did, when he came out of Judaea into Galilee].

55 And JEsus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that JEsus spake unto him, and went.