| 1. | Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John |
| 2. | (although Jesus himself was not baptizing, just his disciples), |
| 3. | he left Judea and returned to Galilee. |
| 4. | He had to pass through Samaria. |
| 5. | So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. |
| 6. | Jacob's well was there. Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down there at the well. It was about noon. |
| 7. | A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." |
| 8. | His disciples had gone into the town to buy food. |
| 9. | The Samaritan woman said to him, "How can you, a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?" (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.) |
| 10. | Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God and who is saying 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 do not even have a bucket and the cistern is deep; where then can you get this living water? |
| 12. | Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this cistern and drank from it himself with his children and his flocks?" |
| 13. | Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again; |
| 14. | but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall 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 be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water." |
| 16. | Jesus said to her, "Go call your husband and come back." |
| 17. | The woman answered and said to him, "I do not have a husband." Jesus answered her, "You are right in saying, 'I do not have a husband.' |
| 18. | For you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true." |
| 19. | The woman said to him, "Sir, I can see that you are a prophet. |
| 20. | Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain; but you people say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem." |
| 21. | Jesus said to her, "Believe me, woman, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. |
| 22. | You people worship what you do not understand; we worship what we understand, because salvation is from the Jews. |
| 23. | But the hour is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth; and indeed the Father seeks such people 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 the Messiah is coming, the one called the Anointed; when he comes, he will tell us everything." |
| 26. | Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who is speaking with you." |
| 27. | At that moment his disciples returned, and were amazed that he was talking with a woman, but still no one said, "What are you looking for?" or "Why are you talking with her?" |
| 28. | The woman left her water jar and went into the town and said to the people, |
| 29. | "Come see a man who told me everything I have done. Could he possibly be the Messiah?" |
| 30. | They went out of the town and came to him. |
| 31. | Meanwhile, the disciples urged him, "Rabbi, eat." |
| 32. | But he said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know." |
| 33. | So the disciples said to one another, "Could someone have brought him something to eat?" |
| 34. | Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to finish his work. |
| 35. | Do you not say, 'In four months the harvest will be here'? I tell you, look up and see the fields ripe for the harvest. |
| 36. | The reaper is already receiving his payment and gathering crops for eternal life, so that the sower and reaper can rejoice together. |
| 37. | For here the saying is verified that 'One sows and another reaps.' |
| 38. | I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the work, and you are sharing the fruits of their work." |
| 39. | Many of the Samaritans of that town began to believe in him because of the word of the woman who testified, "He told me everything I have done." |
| 40. | When the Samaritans came to him, they invited him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days. |
| 41. | Many more began to believe in him because of his word, |
| 42. | and they said to the woman, "We no longer believe because of your word; for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the savior of the world." |
| 43. | After the two days, he left there for Galilee. |
| 44. | For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his native place. |
| 45. | When he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all he had done in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves had gone to the feast. |
| 46. | Then he returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. Now there was a royal official whose son was ill in Capernaum. |
| 47. | When he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, who was near death. |
| 48. | Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe." |
| 49. | The royal official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies." |
| 50. | Jesus said to him, "You may go; your son will live." The man believed what Jesus said to him and left. |
| 51. | While he was on his way back, his slaves met him and told him that his boy would live. |
| 52. | He asked them when he began to recover. They told him, "The fever left him yesterday, about one in the afternoon." |
| 53. | The father realized that just at that time Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live," and he and his whole household came to believe. |
| 54. | (Now) this was the second sign Jesus did when he came to Galilee from Judea. |
