Worsley - John - 4

4:1  Therefore when the Lord knew, 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 Judea, and departed again into Galilee.

4:4  And as He must pass through the country of Samaria, He came to a Samaritan city called Sichar,

4:5  near the piece of ground which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

4:6  And Jacob's well was there. Now Jesus was tired with his journey, and sat down at the well: and it was about the sixth hour of the day,

4:7  when a woman of Samaria coming to draw water, Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

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

4:9  But the Samaritan saith unto Him, How is it that thou who art a Jew askest drink of me, who am a Samaritan? for the Jews have no friendly intercourse with the Samaritans.

4:10  Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith unto thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldst have asked of Him, and He would have given thee living water.

4:11  The woman saith unto Him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then hast thou the living water?

4:12  Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his children, and his cattle?

4:13  Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water, will thirst again;

4:14  but he that drinketh of the water which I shall give him, shall never thirst: but the water, which I shall give him, will be in him a fountain of water springing up unto eternal life.

4:15  The woman saith unto Him, Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.

4:16  Jesus saith unto her, Go call thine husband, and come hither.

4:17  The woman answered, I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her, Thou hast said right, I have no husband:

4:18  for thou hast had five husbands; and he, whom thou now hast, is not thy husband: this thou hast said true.

4:19  The woman saith unto Him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

4:20  Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

4:21  Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the time is coming, when ye shall worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

4:22  Ye worship ye know not what; but we worship what we know: for salvation is from the Jews.

4:23  But the time is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for the Father requireth such worshippers of Him.

4:24  God is a spirit, and they that worship Him, must worship in spirit and truth.

4:25  Then saith the woman unto Him, I know that the Messiah, that is to say the Christ, is coming; and when He comes, He will tell us all things.

4:26  Jesus saith unto her, I, who am talking to thee, am He.

4:27  And upon this came his disciples and wondered that He talked with the woman: (though none of them said, What dost thou seek? or, Why dost thou talk with her?)

4:28  therefore the woman left her water-pot, and went away into the city,

4:29  and saith to the people, Come, see a man who hath told me all that ever I did; is not this the Christ?

4:30  They therefore went out of the city, and came to Him.

4:31  In the mean time his disciples addressed Him, saying, Master, eat.

4:32  But He said unto them, I have food to eat, which ye know not of.

4:33  Therefore the disciples said one to another, Hath any one brought Him aught to eat?

4:34  Jesus saith unto them, My food is to do the will of Him that sent me, and to finish his work.

4:35  Do not ye say, it is yet four months, and then cometh harvest? Behold, lift up your eyes, and see the fields, they are already white for harvest.

4:36  And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth the fruit together unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together;

4:37  for herein the saying is verified, that one soweth, and another reapeth,

4:38  in as much as I have sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured: others have laboured, and ye are entered into their labors.

4:39  And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on Him, because of what the woman said, testifying, He told me all that ever I did.

4:40  Therefore when the Samaritans came to Him, they desired Him to stay with them: and He staid there two days.

4:41  And many more believed on account of his own discourse:

4:42  and said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of what thou hast spoken; for we ourselves have heard Him, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.

4:43  And after two days he departed thence, and went into Cana of Galilee.

4:44  For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet hath no honor in his own country.

4:45  And when He was come into Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen all that he did in Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went to the feast.

4:46  Therefore Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where He had made the water wine.

4:47  And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum: who, when he heard that Jesus was come out of Judea into Galilee, went to Him, and intreated Him, that he would come down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death.

4:48  Jesus therefore said unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders ye will not believe.

4:49  The nobleman saith unto Him, Lord, come down before my child die.

4:50  Jesus saith unto him, Go, thy son is well. And the man believed what Jesus said unto him, and went his way.

4:51  And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, Thy son is well.

4:52  He inquired therefore of them the hour in which he grew better: and they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

4:53  So the father knew that it was in that same hour, in which Jesus said to him, Thy son is well. And he and his whole family believed.

4:54  This is the second miracle that Jesus wrought, upon coming out of Judea into Galilee.