RKJNT - John - 4

4:1  Therefore, when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,

4:2  (Though Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples,)

4:3  He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.

4:4  And he had to go through Samaria.

4:5  Then he came to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

4:6  Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being wearied from his journey, sat by the well: and it was about the sixth hour.

4:7  There came a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus said to her, Give me a drink.

4:8  (For his disciples had gone away to the city to buy food.)

4:9  Then the woman of Samaria said to him, How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

4:10  Jesus answered and said to 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.

4:11  The woman said to him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from where do you get that living water?

4:12  Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his children, and his cattle?

4:13  Jesus answered and said to her, Whoever drinks of this water shall thirst again:

4:14  But whoever drinks 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 eternal life.

4:15  The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.

4:16  Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband, and come here.

4:17  The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, You have well said, I have no husband:

4:18  For you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband: in that you spoke truly.

4:19  The woman said to him, Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

4:20  Our fathers worshipped on this mountain; but you say that Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

4:21  Jesus said to her, Woman, believe me, the hour comes when you shall worship the Father neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem.

4:22  You do not know what you worship: we know what we worship: for salvation is from the Jews.

4:23  But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship him.

4:24  God is Spirit: and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

4:25  The woman said to him, I know that Messiah comes, who is called Christ: when he comes, he will tell us all things.

4:26  Jesus said to her, I who speak to you am he.

4:27  And at this moment his disciples came, and marvelled that he was speaking with a woman: yet no one said, What do you seek? or, Why are you talking with her?

4:28  Then the woman left her waterpot, and went into the city, and said to the people,

4:29  Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did: is this not the Christ?

4:30  Then they went out of the city, and came to him.

4:31  In the meanwhile his disciples urged him, saying, Rabbi, eat.

4:32  But he said to them, I have food to eat of which you know nothing.

4:33  Therefore the disciples said to one another, Has any man brought him food?

4:34  Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work.

4:35  Do you not say, There are yet four months, and then comes harvest? behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are already white for harvest.

4:36  And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for life eternal: that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

4:37  And here the saying holds true, One sows, and another reaps.

4:38  I sent you to reap that upon which you bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and you have entered into their labours.

4:39  And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in him because of the words of the woman's testimony, He told me all that I ever did.

4:40  So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them: and he stayed there two days.

4:41  And many more believed because of his own word;

4:42  And they said to the woman, Now we believe, no longer because of your words: for now we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.

4:43  Now after two days he departed from there, and went into Galilee.

4:44  For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet has no honour in his own country.

4:45  When he came to Galilee, the Galilaeans welcomed him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went to the feast.

4:46  So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where he had made the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official, whose son was sick at Capernaum.

4:47  When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him to come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.

4:48  Then Jesus said to him, Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe.

4:49  The royal official said to him, Sir, come down before my child dies.

4:50  Jesus said to him, Go your way; your son lives. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken to him, and he went his way.

4:51  And as he was going down, his servants met him, and told him, Your son lives.

4:52  Then he enquired of them the hour when he began to mend. And they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

4:53  Then the father realized that this was the very hour when Jesus said to him, Your son lives: and he believed, and his whole household.

4:54  This was the second miraculous sign Jesus did after he came out of Judaea into Galilee.