1 When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John ,
2 (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples ,)
3 He left Judaea , and departed again into Galilee .
4 And he must needs go through Samaria .
5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria , which is called Sychar , near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph .
6 Now Jacob’s well was there . Jesus therefore , being wearied with his journey , sat thus on the well : and it was about the sixth hour .
7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water : Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink .
8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat .)
9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou , being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria ? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans .
10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee , Give me to drink ; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water .
11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with , and the well is deep : from whence then hast thou that living water ?
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob , which gave us the well , and drank thereof himself , and his children , and his cattle ?
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again :
14 But whosoever drinketh 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 everlasting life .
15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water , that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw .
16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband , and come hither .
17 The woman answered and said , I have no husband . Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said , I have no husband :
18 For thou hast had five husbands ; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband : in that saidst thou truly .
19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet .
20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain ; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship .
21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman , believe me, the hour cometh , when ye shall neither in this mountain , nor yet at Jerusalem , worship the Father .
22 Ye worship ye know not what : we know what we worship : for salvation is of the Jews .
23 But the hour cometh , and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth : for the Father seeketh such to worship him.
24 God is a Spirit : and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth .
25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh , which is called Christ : when he is come , he will tell us all things .
26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
27 And upon this came his disciples , and marvelled that he talked with the woman : yet no man said , What seekest thou ? or, Why talkest thou with her?
28 The woman then left her waterpot , and went her way into the city , and saith to the men,
29 Come , see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ ?
30 Then they went out of the city , and came unto him.
31 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying , Master , eat.
32 But he said unto them , I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
33 Therefore said the disciples one to another , Hath any man brought him ought to eat?
34 Jesus saith unto them , My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work .
35 Say not ye, There are yet four months , and then cometh harvest ? behold , I say unto you, Lift up your eyes , and look on the fields ; for they are white already to harvest .
36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages , and gathereth fruit unto life eternal : that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together .
37 And herein is that saying true , One soweth , and another reapeth .
38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour : other men laboured , and ye are entered into their labours .
39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman , which testified , He told me all that ever I did.
40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them : and he abode there two days .
41 And many more believed because of his own word ;
42 And said unto the woman , Now we believe , not because of thy saying : for we have heard him ourselves , and know that this is indeed the Christ , the Saviour of the world .
43 Now after two days he departed thence , and went into Galilee .
44 For Jesus himself testified , that a prophet hath no honour in his own country .
45 Then when he was come into Galilee , the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast : for they also went unto the feast .
46 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee , where he made the water wine . And there was a certain nobleman , whose son was sick at Capernaum .
47 When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee , he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down , and heal his son: for he was at the point of death .
48 Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders , ye will not believe .
49 The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.
50 Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth . And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.
51 And as he was now going down , his servants met him, and told him, saying , Thy son liveth .
52 Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend . And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour , in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth : and himself believed , and his whole house .
54 This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea into Galilee .