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1 Therefore when
the Lord knew
that the Pharisees
had heard that
Jesus was making
and baptizing more
disciples than John
2 (although
Jesus himself didn’t baptize,
but his disciples),
3 he left
Judea and departed
into Galilee.
4 He
needed to pass
through Samaria.
5 So
he came to
a city of
Samaria called
Sychar, near the
parcel of ground
that Jacob gave
to his son
Joseph.
6 Jacob’s
well was there.
Jesus therefore,
being tired from
his journey, sat
down by the
well. It was
about the sixth
hour.
7 A
woman of Samaria
came to draw water.
Jesus said to
her,
“Give me a
drink.”
8 For
his disciples
had gone away into
the city to buy
food.
9 The
Samaritan woman
therefore said to
him, “How is
it that you,
being a Jew,
ask for a
drink from me,
a Samaritan woman?”
(For Jews have
no dealings
with Samaritans.)
10 Jesus
answered her,
“If you knew
the gift of
God, and who
it is who
says 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, “Sir, you
have nothing
to draw with, and
the well is deep.
So where do
you get that
living water?
12 Are
you greater than
our father Jacob,
who gave us
the well and
drank from
it himself, as did
his children and
his livestock?”
13 Jesus
answered her,
“Everyone who
drinks of this
water will
thirst again,
14 but whoever
drinks of the
water that I
will give him
will never
thirst again;
but the water
that I will
give him will
become in him
a well of
water springing up
to eternal life.”
15 The
woman said to
him, “Sir, give
me this water,
so that I don’t
get thirsty, neither
come all the
way here to draw.”
16 Jesus
said to her,
“Go, call
your husband, and
come here.”
17 The
woman answered, “I
have no husband.”
Jesus said to
her,
“You said well,
‘I have
no husband,’
18 for you have
had five husbands;
and he whom
you now have
is not
your husband. This
you have
said truly.”
19 The
woman said to
him, “Sir, I
perceive that you
are a prophet.
20 Our
fathers worshiped
in this mountain,
and you Jews say
that in Jerusalem
is the place
where people ought
to worship.”
21 Jesus
said to her,
“Woman, believe
me, the hour
is coming when
neither in this
mountain nor in
Jerusalem will
you worship the
Father.
22 You worship
that which
you don’t know.
We worship that
which we know;
for salvation is
from the Jews.
23 But the hour
comes, and now
is, when the
true worshipers
will worship the
Father in spirit
and truth, for
the Father seeks
such to be
his worshipers.
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 has
come, he
will declare to us
all things.”
26 Jesus
said to her,
“I am he,
the one who
speaks to
you.”
27 Just
then, his
disciples came.
They marveled that
he was speaking
with a woman;
yet no one
said, “What are
you looking for?”
or, “Why do
you speak with
her?”
28 So
the woman left
her water pot, went away
into the city,
and said to
the people,
29 “Come,
see a man
who told me
everything that I
have done. Can
this be the
Christ?”
30 They
went out of
the city, and
were coming to
him.
31 In
the meanwhile, the
disciples urged him,
saying, “Rabbi,
eat.”
32 But
he said to
them,
“I have food
to eat that
you don’t know
about.”
33 The
disciples therefore
said to one
another, “Has
anyone brought him
something to eat?”
34 Jesus
said to them,
“My food is
to do the
will of him
who sent me
and to
accomplish his
work.
35 Don’t you say,
‘There are yet
four months
until the
harvest’? Behold,
I tell you,
lift up your
eyes and look
at the fields,
that they are
white for
harvest already.
36 He who reaps
receives wages
and gathers
fruit to eternal
life, that both
he who sows
and he who
reaps may
rejoice together.
37 For in this
the saying is
true, ‘One sows,
and another
reaps.’
38 I sent you
to reap that
for which
you haven’t
labored. Others
have labored,
and you have
entered into
their labor.”
39 From
that city many
of the Samaritans
believed in him
because of the
word of the
woman, who
testified, “He
told me everything
that I have
done.”
40 So
when the
Samaritans came to
him, they begged
him to stay
with them. He
stayed there two
days.
41 Many
more believed
because of his
word.
42 They
said to the
woman, “Now we
believe, not
because of your
speaking; for we
have heard for ourselves,
and know that
this is indeed
the Christ, the
Savior of the
world.”
43 After
the two days
he went out
from there and
went into Galilee.
44 For
Jesus himself
testified that a
prophet has no
honor in his
own country.
45 So
when he came
into Galilee, the
Galileans received
him, having seen
all the things
that he did
in Jerusalem at
the feast, for
they also went
to the feast.
46 Jesus
came therefore
again to Cana
of Galilee, where
he made the
water into wine.
There was a
certain nobleman whose
son was sick at
Capernaum.
47 When
he heard that
Jesus had come
out of Judea
into Galilee, he
went to him
and begged him
that he would
come down and
heal his son,
for he was
at the point
of death.
48 Jesus
therefore said to
him,
“Unless you see
signs and
wonders, you
will in no way
believe.”
49 The nobleman
said to him, “Sir, come down
before my
child dies.”
50 Jesus
said to him,
“Go your way.
Your son
lives.”
The man believed
the word that
Jesus spoke to
him, and he
went his way.
51 As
he was going
down, his servants
met him and
reported, saying “Your
child lives!”
52 So
he inquired of
them the hour
when he began
to get better.
They said
therefore to him,
“Yesterday at the
seventh hour,
the fever left
him.”
53 So
the father knew
that it was
at that hour
in which Jesus
said to him,
“Your son
lives.”
He believed, as
did his whole
house.
54 This
is again the
second sign that
Jesus did, having
come out of
Judea into Galilee.