1Now when Jesus 89knew that the Pharisees 90had heard, “Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John”
2(although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples),
3He left Judea and went away into Galilee. 91
4Now He needed to go through Samaria; 92
5so He comes to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 93
6Now Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, being worn out from the journey, sat as He was by the well. It was about 6 p.m. 94
The woman
7A woman of Samaria comes to draw water. Jesus says to her, “Give me a drink.”
8(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
9So the Samaritan woman says to Him, “How can you, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?” (for Jews do not associate with Samaritans).
10Jesus answered and said to her: “If you knew the gift of God, and who is the one saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
11The woman says to Him: “Sir, you don't even have a bucket, and the well is deep; so where do you get this living water?
12You aren't greater than our father Jacob, are you? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”
13Jesus answered and said to her: “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,
14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never ever thirst; 95rather, the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water, welling up into eternal life.” 96
15The woman says to Him, “Sir, give me this water! so that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”
16Jesus says to her, “Go, call your husband and come back here.”
17The woman answered and said, “I don't have a husband.” Jesus says to her: “You stated correctly that you do not have a husband,
18because you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is no husband of yours. You spoke the truth there!” 97
19The woman says to Him: “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
20Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, while you (pl) say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.”
21Jesus says to her: “Woman, believe me, a time is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
22You [Samaritans] worship what you do not know; we [Jews] worship what we do know, because the salvation is from the Jews. 98
23But the time is coming, in fact now is, when the genuine worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Really, because the Father is looking for such people to worship Him. 99
24God is Spirit, 100and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
25The woman says to Him: “I know that Messiah is coming (who is called Christ). When He comes He will explain everything to us.”
26Jesus says to her, “I am He, the one who is talking with you!” 101
The disciples
27At that point His disciples arrived, and they were amazed that He was talking with a woman; yet no one said, “What do you want?” 102or “Why are You talking with her?”
28So the woman left her water jar, 103went her way into the town, and says to the men:
29“Come see a man who told me everything I ever did! Could this be the Messiah?”
30So out they went from the town and started toward Him.
31Now in the meantime the disciples were urging Him saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
32But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”
33So the disciples started saying to one another, “Could someone have brought Him something to eat?”
34Jesus says to them: “My food is to do the will of Him who sent me and to complete His work. 104
35Do you not say, ‘There are four months before the harvest comes?’ Well I say, Look! Lift your eyes and observe the fields; they are white for harvest already!
36Now he who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit into eternal life, 105so that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
37Now the saying, ‘One is the sower and another the reaper,’ is true in this:
38I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labors.” 106
The Samaritans
39Now many of the Samaritans from that city believed into Him because of the word of the woman, testifying that “He told me everything I ever did!”
40So when the Samaritans came to Him they urged Him to stay with them; and He did stay there two days.
41Many more believed through His own word,
42and they kept saying to the woman, “It is not just because of what you said that we believe, because we ourselves have heard Him, 107and we know that this One is truly the Messiah, 108the Savior of the world!” 109
43So after the two days He departed from there and went on into Galilee.
44(For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet does not have honor in his own country.) 110
45So when He came into Galilee the Galileans welcomed Him, having seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem, at the festival; for they too had gone to the festival.
Jesus heals at a distance
46So Jesus went again to Cana of Galilee, 111where He made the water wine. Now there was a certain royal official whose son was sick in Capernaum.
47When this man heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, 112for he was about to die.
48So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders you will not believe!” 113
49The official says to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!”
50Jesus says to him, “Go; your son lives.” Well the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and off he went.
51Now while he was still going down his slaves met him and reported saying, “Your son lives!”
52So he inquired of them the hour in which he got better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” 114
53So the father knew that it was at the exact hour in which Jesus told him, “Your son lives.” Both he himself and his whole household believed.
54Again, coming out of Judea into Galilee, Jesus performed this second miraculous sign. 115
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