John 4
Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman
Therefore when the Lord
knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more
disciples than John (although Jesus himself didn't
baptize, but his disciples), he left Judea, and departed into
Galilee. He needed to pass
through Samaria. So he
came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that
Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. Jacob's well was there. Jesus
therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was
about the sixth hour. A woman of Samaria came to draw
water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a
drink." For
his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
The Samaritan woman
therefore said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a
drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with
Samaritans.)
Jesus answered her,
"If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says
to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have
given you living water."
The woman said to him,
"Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From where
then have you that living water? Are you greater than our father,
Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children,
and his livestock?"
Jesus answered her,
"Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,
but whoever drinks of the
water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I
will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal
life."
The woman said to him,
"Sir, give me this water, so that I don't get thirsty, neither come
all the way here to draw."
Jesus said to her,
"Go, call your husband, and come here."
The woman answered,
"I have no husband."
Jesus said to her, "You said well, 'I have no
husband,' for you have
had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you
have said truly."
The woman said to him,
"Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped in this
mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people
ought to worship."
Jesus said to her,
"Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in
this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father. You worship that which you don't
know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
But the hour comes, and
now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and
truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers. God is spirit, and those who
worship him must worship in spirit and truth."
The woman said to him,
"I know that Messiah comes," (he who is called Christ).
"When he has come, he will declare to us all things."
Jesus said to her,
"I am he, the one who speaks to you."
The Disciples Rejoin Jesus
At this, his disciples
came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said,
"What are you looking for?" or, "Why do you speak with
her?" So the woman
left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people,
"Come, see a man who
told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?"
They went out of the
city, and were coming to him. In the meanwhile, the disciples
urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."
But he said to them,
"I have food to eat that you don't know
about."
The disciples
therefore said one to another, "Has anyone brought him something to
eat?"
Jesus said to them,
"My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to
accomplish his work. Don't you say, 'There are yet
four months until the harvest?' Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and
look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already. He who reaps receives wages, and
gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may
rejoice together. For in
this the saying is true, 'One sows, and another reaps.' I sent you to reap that for which
you haven't labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their
labor."
Many Samaritans Believe
From that city many of
the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who
testified, "He told me everything that I did." So when the Samaritans came to
him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days. Many more believed because of his
word. They said to the
woman, "Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have
heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior
of the world."
Jesus Heals the Official's Son
After the two days he
went out from there and went into Galilee. For Jesus himself testified that
a prophet has no honor in his own country. So when he came into Galilee, the
Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in
Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast. Jesus came therefore again to
Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain
nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had come
out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would
come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. Jesus therefore said to him,
"Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way
believe."
The nobleman said to
him, "Sir, come down before my child dies." Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your son lives." The man believed
the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. As he was now going down, his
servants met him and reported, saying "Your child lives!"
So he inquired of them
the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him,
"Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left
him." So the father
knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives." He believed, as did his whole
house. This is again the
second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.
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