Now when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John,
(although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples),
he left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.
And it was necessary that he pass through Samaria.
So he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph,
and Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, was sitting, just as he was, by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
A woman of Samaria came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me some water to drink”
(for his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food).
So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, asks me for a drink, since I am a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans).
Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is the one who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have been the one to ask him, and he would have given you living water.”
She said to him, “Lord, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From where then do you have that living water?
Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the well and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his livestock?”
Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,
but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never ever thirst, but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to life in the age to come.”
The woman said to him, “Lord, give me this water so I will not get thirsty, nor come all the way here to draw water.”
Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.”
The woman answered and said to him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have rightly said, ‘I have no husband,’
for you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.”
The woman said to him, “Lord, I can see that you are a prophet.
Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, yet you say that in Jerusalem is the Place where people ought to worship.”
Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
You worship that which you do not know. We worship that which we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
But the hour is coming and now is here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to be his worshipers.
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah is coming” (he who is called Christ). “When he comes, he will tell us all things.”
Jesus said to her, “I, the one speaking to you, am he.”
And at this point his disciples came, and they were amazed that he was speaking with a woman, yet no one said, “What do you want?” or, “Why are you speaking with her?”
So the woman left her water jar and went away into the city, and said to the people,
“Come see a man who told me everything I ever did. Can this be the Christ?”
They went out of the city, and were coming to him.
In the meanwhile the disciples were asking him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”
So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.
You have a saying, do you not, ‘There are still four months, and then comes the harvest.’ Listen! I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields—because they are already white and ready to harvest.
Whoever reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for life in the age to come, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.
For in this case the saying is true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’
I sent you to reap that on which you have not labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
And from that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me everything I ever did.”
So when the Samaritans came to him they kept on asking him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.
And many more believed because of his word,
and they said to the woman, “Now it is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is truly the Savior of the world.”
And after the two days he went out from there into Galilee.
(Now Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his hometown.)
So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him because they had seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also had gone to the feast.
Jesus Heals an Official's Son
Then he came again to Cana of Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.
When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, because he was at the point of death.
Therefore Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not ever believe.”
The nobleman said to him, “Lord, come down before my child dies.”
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.
And as he was still going down to Capernaum, his servants met him, saying that his son lived.
So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. Then they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”
So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives,” and he himself believed, and his whole house.
Now this was a second sign that Jesus did when he had come out of Judea into Galilee.