4:1  Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus had made and baptized more disciples than John

4:2  (although Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples did),

4:3  He left Judea and went away again into Galilee.

4:4  And He had to pass through Samaria.

4:5  So He came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;

4:6  and Jacob's well located there. So Jesus, feeling tired from His journey, sat by the well. It became the sixth hour.

4:7  There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink."

4:8  For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

4:9  Therefore the Samaritan woman said to Him, "How come You, a Jew, ask me for a drink since I have Samaritan ancestry?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

4:10  Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who tells you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water."

4:11  She said to Him, "Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well has great depth; where then do You get that living water?

4:12  "You do not have pre-eminence over our father Jacob, do You, 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 shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."

4:15  The woman said to Him, "Sir, give me this water, so I will not have thirst nor come all the way here to draw."

4:16  He said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here."

4:17  The woman answered and said, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You have correctly said, 'I have no husband';

4:18  for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have you cannot call your husband; this you have said truly."

4:19  The woman said to Him, "Sir, I perceive You as a great prophet.

4:20  "Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you people say that we should regard Jerusalem as the place where men ought to worship."

4:21  Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe Me, an hour comes when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

4:22  "You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation comes from the Jews.

4:23  "But an hour comes, and now has arrived, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to worship Him.

4:24  "God constitutes spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."

4:25  The woman said to Him, "I know that Messiah will come (He who we call Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us."

4:26  Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you constitute this Messiah."

4:27  At this point His disciples came, and they appeared amazed that He had spoken with a woman, yet no one said, "What do You seek?" or, "Why do You speak with her?"

4:28  So the woman left her water pot, and went into the city and said to the men,

4:29  Come, see a man who told me all the things that I have done;

4:30  They went out of the city, and came to Him.

4:31  Meanwhile the disciples urged Him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."

4:32  But He said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about."

4:33  So the disciples said to one another, "No one brought Him anything to eat, did he?"

4:34  Jesus said to them, "My food consists of doing the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.

4:35  "Do you not say, 'We still have yet four months, and then comes the harvest'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they appear white for harvest.

4:36  "Already he who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for life eternal; so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

4:37  "For in this case the saying has accuracy, '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  From that city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, "He told me all the things that I have done."

4:40  So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.

4:41  Many more believed because of His word;

4:42  42and they said to the woman, "We do not only rely on your words for what we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and acknowledge this One as indeed the Savior of the world."

4:43  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 to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves also went to the feast.

4:46  Therefore He came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there lived a royal official whose son had become sick at Capernaum.

4:47  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 had arrived at the point of death.

4:48  So Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you simply will not believe."

4:49  The royal official said to Him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."

4:50  Jesus said to him, "Go; your son lives." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started off.

4:51  As he had now gone down, his slaves met him, saying that his son lived.

4:52  So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. Then they said to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him."

4:53  So the father knew that it coincided with that hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives"; and he himself believed and his whole household.

4:54  This we recognize as a second sign that Jesus performed when He had come out of Judea into Galilee.