A Samaritan Woman Meets Her Messiah
1 Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made andbaptized more disciples than John
2 (though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples),
3 He left Judea and departed again to Galilee.
4 But He needed to go through Samaria.
5 So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground thatJacobgave to his son Joseph.
6 Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied fromHisjourney, sat thus 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 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” ForJews have no dealings withSamaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said to her,“If you knew thegift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given youliving water.”
11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then 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 well as his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered and said to her,“Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again,
14 butwhoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give himwill become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
15 The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”
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 the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.”
19 The woman said to Him, “Sir,I perceive that You are a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshiped onthis mountain, and youJewssay that inJerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”
21 Jesus said to her,“Woman, believe Me, the hour is comingwhen you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father.
22 You worshipwhat you do not know; we know what we worship, forsalvation is of the Jews.
23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers willworship the Father inspiritand truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.
24 GodisSpirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiahis coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes,He will tell us all things.”
26 Jesus said to her,“I who speak to you amHe.”
The Whitened Harvest
27 And at thispointHis disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You talking with her?”
28 The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men,
29 “Come, see a Manwho told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”
30 Then they went out of the city and came to Him.
31 In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
32 But He said to them,“I have food to eat of which you do not know.”
33 Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Himanythingto eat?”
34 Jesus said to them,“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and tofinish His work.
35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months andthencomesthe harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields,for they are already white for harvest!
36 And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, thatboth 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 have not labored;others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”
The Savior of the World
39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Himbecause of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all that Ieverdid.”
40 So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.
41 And many more believed because of His ownword.
42 Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, forwe ourselves have heardHimand we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”
Welcome at Galilee
43 Now after the two days He departed from there and went to Galilee.
44 ForJesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
45 So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him,having seen all the things He did in Jerusalem at the feast;for they also had gone to the feast.
A Nobleman’s Son Healed
46 So Jesus came again to Cana of Galileewhere He had made the water wine. And 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 implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
48 Then Jesus said to him,“Unless youpeoplesee signs and wonders, you will by no means 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.”So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.
51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him and toldhim,saying, “Your son lives!”
52 Then he inquired of them the hour when he got better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”
53 So the father knew thatitwasat the same hour in which Jesus said to him,“Your son lives.”And he himself believed, and his whole household.
54 This againisthe second sign Jesus did when He had come out of Judea into Galilee.