[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
again 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. From
where then have you that living water? [12] Are you greater than our
father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his
sons, and his cattle?" [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; 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 worshipped 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 comes, 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
worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father
seeks such to be his worshippers. [24] God is a Spirit, and those who
worship him must worship in spirit and truth." [25] The woman said to him,
"I know that Messiah comes," (he who is called Christ). "When he has come,
he will declare to us all things." [26] Jesus said to her, "I who speak to
you am he." [27] At this, 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, and went
away into the city, and said to the people, [29] "Come, see a man who told
me everything that I did. 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 one to
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 already to harvest. [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 did." [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 forth 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 Galilaeans received
him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for
they also went to the feast. [46] He 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 now 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.
