John Chapter 4
The Ministry in Samaria
1 When Jesus found out that the Pharisees heard he was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (though Jesus didn’t perform the baptisms himself; his disciples did them), 3 he left Judaea and headed back to Galilee. 4 He had to go through Samaria. 5 He camep to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of land Jacob gave his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there. Jesus was sitting on the well wall about noon, tired from the trip.
7 A Samaritan woman camep to draw water, and he said to her, “Please give me a drink.” 8 (His disciples had gone into town to buy food.)
9 The woman saidp, “How does a Jewish man ask a Samaritan woman for a drink? Jews don’t have anything to do with Samaritans.”
10 Jesus answered, “If you knew God’s gift and who’s asking you for a drink, you’d be asking him to give you living water.”
11 “Sir, you don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get ‘living water’? 12 You aren’t greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? He gave us the well and drank from it himself—his sons and herds too.”
13 Jesus answered, “Everybody that drinks this water gets thirsty again. 14 Whoever drinks the water I give him won’t get thirsty again. It’ll become a well inside him that springs up into eternal life.”
15 “Give me that water so I won’t get thirsty and have to come here to draw it!”
16 Jesus told herp, “Go get your husband and come back.”
17 “I don’t have a husband.”
18 “You said it well. You’ve had five husbands; the one you’re living with now isn’t your husband. You told the truth.”
19 The woman saidp, “Sir, you must be a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain. Youpl say people should worship in Jerusalem.”
21 Jesus toldp her,
“Believe me, the time’s coming when youpl won’t worship the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem. 22 Youpl don’t know what you’re worshiping. We do, because salvation does come from the Jews. 23 But, the time’s coming—it’s here now—when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. The Father’s looking for people to worship him like that. 24 God’s a spirit. and those who worship him need to worship him in spirit and truth.”
25“I know Messiah’s coming [called Christ]. He’ll explain everything to us.”
26 Jesus saidp, “I am the Messiah.”
27 At that point his disciples got back and were surprised that he was talking to a woman. But nobody said, “What are you trying to find out?” “Why are you talking to her?” 28 She left her water pot and went into town and toldp the men, 29 “Come see a fellow that told me everything I ever did. He’s not the Messiah, is he?” 30 They left the town and were on the way to him.
31 Meanwhile the disciples kept saying, “Rabbi, eat something.”
32 But he said, “I have ‘food’ to eat that you don’t know about.”
33 They said to one another, “Nobody’s brought him anything to eat, have they?”
34 Jesus saidp,
“My ‘food’ is doing the will of the One that sent me and finishing it up. 35 Aren’t youpl saying harvest is still four months away? Look; the fields are ready for harvest now. 36 Whoever reaps earns wages and gathers grain for eternal life. 37 In this respect, the saying holds true, ‘One sows, another reaps.’ 38 I’ve sent you to reap what you haven’t worked on. Other people have worked, and you’ve joined in their work.”
39 From that town many Samaritans believed in him because the woman said, “He told me everything I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans got to where he was, they asked him to stay with them; he stayed two days. 41 Many more believed because of what he said. 42 They told the woman, “We don’t believe just because of what you said. We’ve heard him ourselves and know this really is the One that will save the world.”
Jn 4:1-42
Introductory Statements About the Galilean Ministry
43 Two days later, Jesus left for Galilee. 44 He observed that a prophet doesn’t get any respect in his hometown.
45 Yet when he got to Galilee, the Jews welcomed him because they’d seen what he’d done in Jerusalem; they’d attended the festival themselves.
Jn 4:43-45
Healing the Official’s Son
46 Then he went to Cana in Galilee, where he’d turned the water into wine. An official’s son in Capernaum was sick. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come from Judaea to Galilee, he went to ask him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die.
48 Jesus told him, “Unless youpl see signs, you won’t believe, will you?”
49 The official saidp, “Sir, come on down before my little boy dies.”
50 Jesus told himp, “Go on, your son’s alive.”
The man took his word for it and went on back.
51 As he was going back down to Capernaum, his servants met him and said his child was alive. 52 He asked what time he recovered. “Yesterday at 1 o’clock the fever broke.” 53 So his dad knew it was when Jesus said, “Your son’s alive.” He and his whole family believed. 54 That was a second sign Jesus did in Galilee, which he did after he came back from Judaea.
Jn 4:46-54