Chapter 4

When, therefore, Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John---

although Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples---

he left Judea and went again into Galilee.

Now he had to pass through Samaria.

He came, accordingly, to a town of Samaria called Sichar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, wearied as he was from the journey, was sitting by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

There came a Samaritan woman to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me to drink";

for his disciples had gone away into the town to buy food.

The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, "How is it that thou, although thou art a Jew, dost ask drink of me, who am a Samaritan woman?" For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.

Jesus answered and said to her, "If thou didst know the gift of God, and who it is who says to thee, 'Give me to drink, ' thou, perhaps, wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water."

The woman said to him, "Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Whence then hast thou living water?

Art thou greater than our father Jacob who gave us the well, and drank from it, himself, and his sons, and his flocks? "

In answer Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again. He, however, who drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst;

but the water that I will give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up unto life everlasting."

The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water that I may not thirst, or come here to draw."

Jesus said to her, "Go, call thy husband and come here."

The woman answered and said, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "Thou hast said well, 'I have no husband, '

for thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. In this thou hast spoken truly."

The woman said to him, "Sir, I see that thou art a prophet.

Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you say that at Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship."

Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeks such to worship him.

God is spirit, and they who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth."

The woman said to him, "I know that Messias is coming (who is called Christ), and when he comes he will tell us all things."

Jesus said to her, "I who speak with thee am he."

And at this point his disciples came; and they wondered that he was speaking with a woman. Yet no one said, "What dost thou seek?" or, "Why dost thou speak with her? "

The woman therefore left her water-jar and went away into the town, and said to the people,

"Come and see a man who has told me all that I have ever done. Can he be the Christ? "

They went forth from the town and came to meet him.

Meanwhile, his disciples besought him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."

But he said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know."

The disciples therefore said to one another, "Has someone brought him something to eat? "

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, to accomplish his work.

Do you not say, 'There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest'? Well, I say to you, lift up your eyes and behold that the fields are already white for the harvest.

And he who reaps receives a wage, and gathers fruit unto life everlasting, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

For herein is the proverb true, 'One sows, another reaps. '

I have sent you to reap that on which you have not labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labors."

Now many of the Samaritans of that town believed in him because of the word of the woman who bore witness, "He told me all that I have ever done."

When therefore the Samaritans had come to him, they besought him to stay there; and he stayed two days.

And far more believed because of his word.

And they said to the woman, "We no longer believe because of what thou hast said, for we have heard for ourselves and we know that this is in truth the Savior of the world."

Now after two days he departed from that place and went into Galilee,

for Jesus himself bore witness that a prophet receives no honor in his own country.

When, therefore, he had come into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem during the feast, for they also had gone to the feast. The Official's Son

He came again therefore to Cana of Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son was lying sick at Capharnaum.

When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him and besought him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

Jesus therefore said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you do not believe."

The royal official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."

Jesus said to him, "Go thy way, thy son lives." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and departed.

But even as he was now going down, his servants met him and brought word saying that his son lived.

He asked of them therefore the hour in which he had got better. And they told him, "Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him."

The father knew then that it was at that very hour in which Jesus had said to him, "Thy son lives." And he himself believed, and his whole household.

This was a second sign that Jesus worked when coming from Judea into Galilee.