Chapter 4 When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made
and baptized more disciples than John, though Jesus himself baptized not but his
disciples, he left Judea and departed again into Galilee, and he must needs go
through Samaria.
Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel
of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Now Jacob's well was there.
Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well.
And it was about the sixth hour.
There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water.
Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.
Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew,
askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria?
For the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God,
and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked
of him, and he would have given thee living water.
The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with,
and the well is deep.
From whence then hast thou that living water?
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof
himself, and his children, and his cattle?
Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall
thirst again.
But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst.
But the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water, springing up
into everlasting life.
The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not,
neither come hither to draw.
Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
The woman answered and said, I have no husband.
Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband.
For thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou now hast is not thy
husband.
In that saidst thou truly.
The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place
where men ought to worship.
Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh when ye shall neither in
this mountain nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father.
Ye worship ye know not what.
We know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship
the Father in spirit and in truth.
For the Father seeketh such to worship him.
God is a spirit, and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
The woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah's cometh.
Which is called Christ.
When he is come, he will tell us all things.
Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
And upon this came his disciples, and marveled that he talked with the
woman.
Yet no man said, What seekest thou?
Or, Why talkest thou with her?
The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city,
and saith to the men, Come, see a man which told me all things that ever I did.
Is not this the Christ?
Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
In the meanwhile his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.
But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to
eat?
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to
finish his work.
Say not ye, there are yet four months, and then cometh harvest.
Behold, I say unto you, lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, for they are white
already to harvest.
And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal,
that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
And herein is that saying true, one soweth, and another reapeth.
I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labor.
Other men labored, and ye are entered into their labors.
And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the
woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with
them.
And he abode there two days.
And many more believed because of his own word, and said unto the woman,
Now we believe, not because of thy saying, for we have heard him ourselves,
and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.
Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.
For Jesus himself testified that a prophet hath no honor in his own country.
Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen
all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast.
For they also went unto the feast.
So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine.
And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.
When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judea into Galilee, he went unto him and
besought him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of
death.
Then Jesus said unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders ye will not believe.
The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down, ere my child die.
Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way, thy son liveth.
And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.
And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying,
Thy son liveth.
Then inquired he of them the hour when he began to amend.
And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
So the father knew that it was at the same hour in the which Jesus said unto him,
Thy son liveth.
And himself believed, and his whole house.
This is again the second miracle that Jesus did when he was come out of Judea
into Galilee.