4:1 But when Jesus knew that many Pharisees heard that he was making many disciples, [even] more than John,
4:2 because it was not Jesus alone who was baptizing but [also] his disciples,
4:3 he left Judea and departed again into Galilee.
4:4 And he must surely pass through Samaria.
4:5 So he comes to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph:
4:6 and Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
4:7 There comes a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus says to her, Give me a drink.
4:8 For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
4:9 The Samaritan woman therefore says to him, How is it that you, being a Jew, ask me for a drink, being a Samaritan woman? For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.
4:10 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.
4:11 The woman says to him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from where then do you have that living water?
4:12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?
4:13 Jesus answered and said to her, Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again:
4:14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of living water forever.
4:15 The woman says to him, Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, neither come all the way here to draw.
4:16 He says to her, Go, call your husband, and come here.
4:17 The woman answered and said to him, I have no husband. Jesus says to her, You said well, I have no husband:
4:18 for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband: this you have said truly.
4:19 The woman says to him, Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
4:20 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and you+ say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
4:21 Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you+ worship the Father.
4:22 You+ worship that which you+ don't know: we worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
4:23 But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such does the Father seek to be his worshipers.
4:24 God is spirit: and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
4:25 The woman says to him, I know that Messiah comes (he who is called Christ): when he has come, he will declare to us all things.
4:26 Jesus says to her, I am he who speaks to you.
4:27 And on this his disciples came; and they marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no man said, What do you seek? Or, Why do you speak with her?
4:28 So the woman left her waterpot, and went away into the city, and says to the men,
4:29 Come, see a man, who told me all things that I ever did: can this be the Christ?
4:30 They went out of the city, and were coming to him.
4:31 In the meanwhile the disciples prayed him, saying, Rabbi, eat.
4:32 But he said to them, I have meat to eat that you+ do not know.
4:33 The disciples therefore said one to another, Has any man brought him [anything] to eat?
4:34 Jesus says to them, My meat is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
4:35 Don't you+ say, There are yet four months, and [then] comes the harvest? Look, I say to you+, Lift up your+ eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white to harvest.
4:36 Already he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
4:37 For in this is the saying true, One sows, and another reaps.
4:38 I sent you+ to reap that for which you+ have not labored: others have labored, and you+ have entered into their labor.
4:39 And from that city many of the Samaritans believed on him because of the word of the woman, who testified, He told me all things that [ever] I did.
4:40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they implored him to stay with them: and he stayed there two days.
4:41 And many more believed because of his word;
4:42 and 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 Savior of the world.
4:43 And after the two days he went forth from there into Galilee.
4:44 For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
4:45 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.
4:46 He came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.
4:47 When he heard that Jesus came out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and implored [him] that he would come down, and heal his son; for he was at the point of death.
4:48 Jesus therefore said to him, Except you+ see signs and wonders, you+ will in no way believe.
4:49 The nobleman says to him, Sir, come down before my child dies.
4:50 Jesus says to him, Go your way; your son lives. The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.
4:51 And as he was now going down, his slaves met him, saying, that his boy lived.
4:52 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to amend. They said therefore to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
4:53 So the father knew that [it was] at that hour in which Jesus said to him, Your son lives: and himself believed, and his whole house.
4:54 Now this is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.