John Chapter 4
1 Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,
2 although Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples did,
3 He left Judea and departed again into Galilee.
4 But He needed to go through Samaria on the way.
5 So, He came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6 Now Jacob's well was there. Therefore Jesus, being tired⁺ from His journey, sat down on the well. It was about twelve o'clock⁺ noon.
7 Then a woman from Samaria came to draw water, and Jesus said to her: Give me a drink.
8 For His disciples had gone to the city to buy food⁺.
9 Then the woman from Samaria said to Him: How is it that you, being a Jew, ask me, a woman from Samaria, for a drink? For the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said to her: If you knew the gift of God and who it is that says to you: Give me a drink, you would have asked of Him and He would have given you living water.
11 The woman said to Him: Sir, you have nothing with which to draw and the well is deep. From where then have you obtained living water?
12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, and his children and his cattle?
13 Jesus answered and said to her: Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again.
14 But whoever drinks of the water that I give will never thirst. However, the water that I give will become a well of water within⁺ them springing up into eternal⁺ life.
15 The woman said to Him: Sir, give me this water so that I will not thirst nor need to come here to draw water.
16 Jesus said to her: Go. Call your husband and come here.
17 The woman answered and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: You have well said: I have no husband.
18 For you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband. In this, you spoke the truth.
19 The woman said to Him: Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, but you 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 you will not worship the Father either in this mountain or in Jerusalem.
22 You do not understand⁺ what you worship. We know what we worship, for salvation comes through⁺ the Jews.
23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father seeks such to worship Him.
24 God is Spirit. Those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.
25 The woman said to Him: I know that the Messiah is coming who is called Christ. When He has come, He will tell us everything⁺.
26 Jesus said to her: I who speak to you am He.
27 At this point⁺, Jesus' disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with the woman. Yet no one said: What were you seeking? Or: Why were you talking with her?
28 Then the woman left her water pot and went into the city and said to the people⁺:
29 Come and see a man who told me everything that I ever did. Is this not the Christ?
30 Then the people came out of the city and came to Him.
31 Meanwhile, His disciples urged⁺ Him saying: Master, eat.
32 But He said to them: I have food⁺ to eat that you do not yet understand⁺.
33 Therefore the disciples said to one another: Has anyone brought anything to Him to eat?
34 Jesus said to them: My food⁺ is to do the will of Him who sent me and to finish His work.
35 Do you not say: There are yet four months and then the harvest time comes? Behold I say to you: Lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are white, ready to harvest.
36 Those who reap receive wages and gather fruit to eternal life so that both those who sow and those who reap may rejoice together.
37 Herein is that saying true: One sows and another reaps.
38 I sent you to reap that on which you bestowed no labor. Others labored and you have now entered their labors.
39 Many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the words⁺ of the woman who testified: He told me everything⁺ that I ever did.
40 So when the Samaritans came to Him, they begged⁺ Him that He would stay⁺ with them, and He stayed⁺ there two days.
41 And many more believed because of His Word.
42 They said to the woman: Now we believe, not because of what you said, but because we have heard Him ourselves and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.
43 Now after two days, Jesus departed from there⁺ and went to Galilee.
44 For Jesus Himself testified, that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
45 Then when He had come into Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen all the things that He did at Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast.
46 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where He had made the water into wine. And there was a certain nobleman there, whose son was sick in Capernaum.
47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Jesus and begged⁺ Him that He would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
48 Then Jesus said to him: Unless⁺ you see signs and wonders, you will not believe.
49 The nobleman said to Him: Sir, come down before⁺ my child dies.
50 Jesus said to him: Go. Your son lives. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken to him and he went away⁺.
51 As he was going, his servants met him and told him saying: Your son lives.
52 Then he inquired of them the hour when his son began to recover⁺. They said to him: Yesterday at one o'clock⁺ in the afternoon the fever left him.
53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him: Your son lives. Then both he and his entire⁺ household⁺ believed.
54 This was the second miracle~ that Jesus did when He had come out of Judea into Galilee.