1 Therefore when the Lord knew that
the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was
making and baptizing more disciples than
John
2 (although Jesus himself didn’t baptize,
but his disciples),
3 he left Judea and departed into Galilee.
4 He needed to pass through Samaria.
5 So he came to a city of Samaria called
Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob
gave to his son Joseph.
6 Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore,
being tired from his journey, sat down by
the well. It was about the sixth hour.†
7 A woman of Samaria came to draw
water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”
8 For his disciples had gone away into the
city to buy food.
9 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.)
10 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.”
11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have
nothing to draw with, and the well is deep.
So where do you get that living water?
12 Are you greater than our father Jacob,
who gave us the well and drank from it
himself, as did his children and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered her, “Everyone who
drinks of this water will thirst again,
14 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.” 15 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.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband,
and come here.”
17 The woman answered, “I have no husband.”
Jesus said to her, “You said well, ‘I have
no husband,’
18 for you have had five husbands; and
he whom you now have is not your husband.
This you have said truly.”
19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive
that you are a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain,
and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is
the place where people ought to worship.”
21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe
me, the hour is coming when neither in
this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you
worship the Father.
22 You worship that which you don’t
know. We worship that which we know;
for salvation is from the Jews.
23 But the hour comes, and now is, when
the true worshipers will worship the Father
in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks
such to be his worshipers.
24 God is spirit, and those who worship
him must worship in spirit and truth.”
25 The woman said to him, “I know that
Messiah is coming, he who is called Christ.‡
When he has come, he will declare to us all
things.”
26 Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who
speaks to you.”
27 Just then, 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?” 28 So the woman left her water pot, went
away into the city, and said to the people,
29 “Come, see a man who told me everything
that I have done. Can this be the
Christ?” 30 They went out of the city, and were
coming to him.
31 In the meanwhile, the disciples urged
him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat
that you don’t know about.”
33 The disciples therefore said to one
another, “Has anyone brought him something
to eat?”
34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the
will of him who sent me and to accomplish
his work.
35 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.
36 He who reaps receives wages and
gathers fruit to eternal life, that both he
who sows and he who reaps may rejoice
together.
37 For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows,
and another reaps.’
38 I sent you to reap that for which you
haven’t labored. Others have labored, and
you have entered into their labor.”
39 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 have done.”
40 So when the Samaritans came to him,
they begged him to stay with them. He
stayed there two days.
41 Many more believed because of his
word.
42 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.”
43 After the two days he went out from
there and went into Galilee.
44 For Jesus himself testified that a
prophet has no honor in his own country.
45 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.
46 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.
47 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.
48 Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless
you see signs and wonders, you will in no
way believe.”
49 The nobleman said to him, “Sir, come
down before my child dies.”
50 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.
51 As he was going down, his servants
met him and reported, saying “Your child
lives!” 52 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.” 53 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.
54 This is again the second sign that Jesus
did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.
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