[1] Now when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was
making and baptizing more disciples than John [2] (although Jesus himself
did not baptize, but only his disciples), [3] he left Judea and departed
again to Galilee. [4] He had to pass through Samar'ia. [5] So he came to a
city of Samar'ia, called Sy'char, near the field that Jacob gave to his son
Joseph. [6] Jacob's well was there, and so Jesus, wearied as he was with
his journey, sat down beside the well. It was about the sixth hour. [7]
There came a woman of Samar'ia 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 said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of
me, a woman of Samar'ia?" For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. [10]
Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is
saying 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; 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, and his sons, and his cattle?" [13] Jesus said
to her, "Every one who drinks of this water will thirst again, [14] but
whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst; the
water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up
to eternal 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 him, "I have no
husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, `I have no husband';
[18] for you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your
husband; this you said truly." [19] The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive
that you are a prophet. [20] Our fathers worshiped on this mountain; and
you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship." [21]
Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on
this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. [22] You
worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is
from the Jews. [23] But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true
worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father
seeks to worship him. [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 comes, he will show us
all things." [26] Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am he." [27] Just
then his disciples came. They marveled that he was talking with a woman,
but none said, "What do you wish?" or, "Why are you talking with her?" [28]
So the woman left her water jar, and went away into the city, and said to
the people, [29] "Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this
be the Christ?" [30] They went out of the city and were coming to him. [31]
Meanwhile the disciples besought him, saying, "Rabbi, eat." [32] But he
said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know." [33] So the
disciples said to one another, "Has any one brought him food?" [34] Jesus
said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to
accomplish his work. [35] Do you not say, `There are yet four months, then
comes the harvest'? I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see how the fields
are already white for harvest. [36] He who reaps receives wages, and
gathers fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice
together. [37] For here the saying holds true, `One sows and another
reaps.' [38] I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor; others
have labored, and you have entered into their labor." [39] Many Samaritans
from that city believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told
me all that I ever did." [40] So when the Samaritans came to him, they
asked him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days. [41] And many
more believed because of his word. [42] They said to the woman, "It is no
longer because of your words that we believe, for we have heard for
ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world." [43]
After the two days he departed to Galilee. [44] For Jesus himself testified
that a prophet has no honor in his own country. [45] So when he came to
Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in
Jerusalem at the feast, for they too had gone to the feast. [46] So he came
again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at
Caper'na-um there was an official whose son was ill. [47] When he heard
that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged him to 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 not
believe." [49] The official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child
dies." [50] Jesus said to him, "Go; your son will live." The man believed
the word that Jesus spoke to him and went his way. [51] As he was going
down, his servants met him and told him that his son was living. [52] So he
asked them the hour when he began to mend, and they said to him, "Yesterday
at the seventh hour the fever left him." [53] The father knew that was the
hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live"; and he himself
believed, and all his household. [54] This was now the second sign that
Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.
