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[1] WHEN Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard he made many disciples, and was baptizing more people than John,
[2] Though Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples;
[3] He left Judaea and came again to Galilee.
[4] He had to go through Samaritan territory.
[5] Then he came to a Samaritan city, called Sychar, near the field which Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
[6] Now Jacob's well was there; and Jesus was tired by the fatigue of the journey, and sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
[7] And there came a woman from Samaria to draw water; and Jesus said to her, Give me water to drink.
[8] His disciples had entered into the city to buy food for themselves.
[9] The Samaritan woman said to him, How is it? You are a Jew, and yet you ask me for a drink, who am a Samaritan woman? For Jews have no social intercourse with Samaritans.
[10] Jesus answered and said to her, If you only knew the gift of God, and who is the man who said to you, Give me a drink; you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.
[11] The woman said to him, My lord, you have no leather bucket, and no deep well; where do you get the living water?
[12] Why, are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well, and he himself drank from it, and his sons and his sheep?
[13] Jesus answered and said to her, Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again;
[14] But whoever drinks of the water which I give him, shall never thirst; but the same water which I give him shall become in him a well of water springing up to life everlasting.
[15] The woman said to him, My lord, give me of this water, so that I may not thirst again, and need not come and draw from here.
[16] Jesus said to her, Go and call your husband, and come here.
[17] She said to him, I have no husband; Jesus said to her, You said well, I have no husband;
[18] For you have had five husbands; and the one you now have is not your husband; what you said is true.
[19] Then the woman said to him, My lord, I see that you are a prophet.
[20] Our forefathers worshipped on this mountain; and you say the place where men must worship is in Jerusalem.
[21] Jesus said to her, Woman, believe me, the time is coming, when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem they will worship the Father.
[22] You worship what you do not know; but we worship what we do know; for salvation is from the Jews.
[23] But the time is coming, and it is here, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father also desires worshippers such as these.
[24] For God is Spirit; and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
[25] The woman said to him, I know that the Messiah (Christ) is coming; when he is come, he will teach us everything.
[26] Jesus said to her, I am he, who is speaking to you.
[27] While he was talking, his disciples came, and they were surprised that he was talking with a married woman; but no one said to him, What do you want? or, What are you talking with her?
[28] The woman then left her water jar, and went to the city and said to the men,
[29] Come and see a man who told me everything which I have done; why, is he the Christ?
[30] And the men went out of the city, and came to him.
[31] During the interval his disciples begged him, saying, Teacher, eat.
[32] But he said to them, I have food to eat, of which you do not know.
[33] The disciples said among themselves, Why, did any man bring him something to eat?
[34] Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work.
[35] Do you not say that after four months comes the harvest? behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, which have turned white and have long been ready for the harvest.
[36] And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruits to life everlasting; so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.
[37] For in this case the saying is true, One sows and another reaps.
[38] I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor; for others labored, and you have entered into their labor.
[39] A great many Samaritans of that city believed in him, because of the word of that woman, who testified, He told me everything which I have done.
[40] So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them; and he stayed with them two days.
[41] And a great many believed in him because of his word;
[42] And they were saying to the woman, Henceforth it is not because of your word that we believe him; for we ourselves have heard and know, that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
[43] Two days later, Jesus departed thence and went to Galilee.
[44] For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet is not honored in his own city.
[45] When he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, for they had seen all the wonders he did at Jerusalem during the feast; for they also had come to the feast.
[46] Then Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was at Capernaum a servant of a king, whose son was sick.
[47] This man heard that Jesus had come from Judaea to Galilee; so he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son; for he was near death.
[48] Jesus said to him, Unless you see miracles and wonders, you will not believe.
[49] The king's servant said to him, My Lord, come down before the boy is dead.
[50] Jesus said to him, Go, your son is healed. And the man believed the word that Jesus said to him and went away.
[51] And as he was going down, his servants met him and brought him good news, saying, Your son is healed.
[52] And he asked them, At what time was he healed? They said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him.
[53] And his father knew that it was at that very hour when Jesus told him, Your son is healed; so he himself believed and his whole household.
[54] This is again the second miracle which Jesus did, after he came from Judaea to Galilee.
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