Jesus Leaves Judea for Galilee

1. When Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was making and immersing more disciples than John.
2. (though it was not Jesus himself who immersed, but his disciples).
3. He left Judea and went away again into Galilee.
4. And it was necessary for him to pass through Samaria.
5. So he came into a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to Joseph his son.
6. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired from the journey, sat down beside the well about the sixth hour.

Jesus Speaks With the Samaritan Woman

7. A woman of Samaria came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”
8. For his disciples had gone into the town to buy food.
9. The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask from me a drink, though I am a Samaritan woman?” For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.
10. Jesus answered her, “If you had known the gift of God, and who it is saying to you ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
11. She said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket and the well is deep, so where do you get this living water?”
12. “Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his flocks?”
13. Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will thirst again.”
14. “But whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never thirst; indeed, the water I give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
15. The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may not thirst nor come here to draw.”
16. Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come back.”
17. The woman answered, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have spoken truthfully, ‘I have no husband.’”
18. “For you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband; in this you have spoken truth.”
19. The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.”
20. “Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, yet you say that Jerusalem is the place where one must worship.”
21. Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.”
22. “You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.”
23. “But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him.”
24. “God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
25. The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming, he who is called Christ, when he comes, he will declare all things to us.”
26. Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one speaking with you.”

The Disciples Return — The Fields Are Ready

27. Then his disciples came, and they were amazed that he was speaking with a woman, yet no one asked, “What do you seek?” or “Why do you speak with her?”
28. The woman left her water-jar, went into the town, and said to the people.
29. “Come, see a man who told me everything I have done; could this be the Christ?”
30. They went out from the town and came toward him.
31. Meanwhile the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
32. But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”
33. So the disciples said to one another, “Has someone brought him food?”
34. Jesus said, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.”
35. “Do you not say, ‘In four months comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes and see the fields, for they are white for harvest.”
36. “He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps may rejoice together.”
37. “For in this the saying is true: one sows and another reaps.”
38. “I sent you to reap what you have not laboured for; others have laboured, and you have entered into their labour.”

Many Samaritans Believe

39. Many of the Samaritans of that town believed in him because of the testimony of the woman, who said that he told her everything she had done.
40. So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he remained two days.
41. And many more believed because of his word.
42. They said to the woman, “We no longer believe only because of what you said, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this is truly the Saviour of the world.”

Jesus Heals the Official’s Son

43. After the two days he departed from there and went into Galilee.
44. For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honour in his own homeland.
45. So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they too had gone to the feast.
46. Then he came again to Cana of Galilee, where he had made the water wine, and there was a royal official whose son lay sick in Capernaum.
47. When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
48. Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”
49. The official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”
50. Jesus said to him, “Go, your son lives.” The man believed the word Jesus spoke to him and went his way.
51. As he was on the way, his servants met him, saying that his son lived.
52. He asked them the hour when he began to recover, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”
53. Then the father knew that it was at that hour when Jesus said to him, “Your son lives,” and he himself believed, and all his household.
54. This was again the second sign Jesus did when he had come out of Judea into Galilee.