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John 4

Jesus Goes to Galilee

Therefore when ^aJesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and ^bbaptizing more disciples than John 2 (although ^aJesus Himself was not baptizing, but His ^bdisciples were), 3 He left ^aJudea and went away ^bagain into Galilee. 4 And He had to pass through ^aSamaria. 5 So He *came to a city of ^aSamaria called Sychar, near ^bthe field that ^cJacob gave to his son Joseph; 6 and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, being wearied from His journey, was sitting thus by the well. It was about ¹the sixth hour.

Jesus and the Samaritan Woman

7 A woman of Samaria *came to draw water. Jesus *said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 8 For His ^adisciples had gone away into ^bthe city to buy food. 9 Therefore the ^aSamaritan woman *said to Him, “How do You, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?” (For ^bJews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 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 ^aliving water.” 11 She *said to Him, “¹Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then do You get that ^aliving water? 12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who ^agave us this well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle?” 13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him ^awill never thirst—ever; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to ^beternal life.”
15 The woman *said to Him, “¹Sir, ^agive me this water, so I will not be thirsty nor come back here to draw.” 16 He *said to her, “Go, call your husband and come back here.” 17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus *said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly.” 19 The woman *said to Him, “¹Sir, I see that You are ^aa prophet. 20 ^aOur fathers worshiped on ^bthis mountain, and you people say that ^cin Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.” 21 Jesus *said to her, “Woman, believe Me, ^aan hour is coming when ^bneither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22 ^aYou worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for ^bsalvation is from the Jews. 23 But ^aan hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father ^bin spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. 24 God is ¹spirit, and those who worship Him must worship ^ain spirit and truth.” 25 The woman *said to Him, “I know that ^aMessiah is coming (^bHe who is called ¹Christ); when He comes, He will declare all things to us.” 26 Jesus *said to her, “^aI who speak to you am He.”
27 And at this point His ^adisciples came, and they were marveling that He was speaking with a woman, yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You speaking with her?” 28 So the woman left her water jar, and went into the city and *said to the men, 29 “Come, see a man ^awho told me all the things that I have done; ^bis this not the ¹Christ?” 30 They went out of the city, and were coming to Him.
31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, saying, “^aRabbi, eat.” 32 But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33 So the ^adisciples were saying to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?” 34 Jesus *said to them, “My food is to ^ado the will of Him who sent Me and to ^bfinish His work. 35 Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white ^afor harvest. 36 Even now he who reaps is receiving ^awages and is gathering ^bfruit for ^clife eternal; so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37 For in this case the saying is true, ‘^aOne sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”

Many Samaritans Believe

39 From ^athat city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who bore witness, “^bHe told me all the things that I have done.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they were asking Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed because of His word; 42 and they were saying to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One is truly ^athe Savior of the world.”
43 And after ^athe two days He went from there into Galilee. 44 For Jesus Himself bore witness that ^aa prophet has no honor in his own country. 45 So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, ^ahaving seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves also went to the feast.

Jesus Heals a Royal Official’s Son

46 Then He came again to ^aCana of Galilee ^bwhere He had made the water wine. And there was a royal official whose son was sick at ^cCapernaum. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come ^aout of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and was asking Him to come down and heal his son; for he was about to die. 48 So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see ¹^asigns and ^awonders, you will never believe.” 49 The royal official *said to Him, “¹Sir, come down before my child dies.” 50 Jesus *said to him, “^aGo; your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started on his way. 51 And while he was still going down, his slaves met him, saying that his ¹son was alive. 52 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. Then they said to him, “Yesterday at the ¹seventh 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”; and he himself believed and ^ahis whole household. 54 This is again a ^asecond ¹sign that Jesus did when He had ^bcome out of Judea into Galilee.

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