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4:1  Now when Jesus learned · that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
4:2  —although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but · his disciples were—
4:3  he left · Judea and departed again for · Galilee.
4:4  Now it was necessary that he pass through · Samaria.
4:5  So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ·
4:6  Jacob’s well was · there. · · So Jesus, weary from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
4:7  There came a woman of · Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, · “Give me a drink.”
4:8  · (For his disciples had gone off to the town to buy food.)
4:9  The Samaritan woman said to him, · “How is it that you, being a Jew, are asking for a drink from me, a woman who is from Samaria?” (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)
4:10  Jesus answered · her, saying, “If you had known the gift of God and who it was that said to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
4:11  The woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket and the well is deep. How then are you going to draw the living water? ·
4:12  Surely you are not greater than our father Jacob, are you, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did · his sons and · his flocks?”
4:13  Jesus replied, and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of · this water will be thirsty again,
4:14  but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty for all time, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water gushing up to eternal life.”
4:15  The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this · water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.”
4:16  Jesus said to her, “Go, call · your husband, and come back here.”
4:17  The woman replied and said to him, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus said to her, · “You are right in saying, ‘I do not have a husband,’
4:18  for you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. You have spoken the truth.”
4:19  The woman said to him, “Sir, I can see that you are a prophet.
4:20  · Our fathers worshiped on · this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where people should worship is in Jerusalem.”
4:21  Jesus said to her, · “Believe me, woman, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on · this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
4:22  You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, because · salvation is from the Jews.
4:23  But the hour is coming, and is here already, when · true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for indeed the Father is seeking just such people · to be his worshipers.
4:24  God is spirit, · and those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.”
4:25  The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (the one called Christ). When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
4:26  Jesus said to her, · “I, the one speaking to you, am he.”
4:27  · Just then his disciples came back. · · They were astonished that he was talking with a woman; however, no one said to her, “What do you want?” or to him, “Why are you talking with her?”
4:28  Then the woman left · her water jar and went off to the town. · She told the people there,
4:29  “Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! Could this man be the Messiah?”
4:30  So they went out of the town and made their way to Jesus.
4:31  In the meantime the disciples kept urging Jesus, saying, “Rabbi, take something to eat.”
4:32  But he said to them, “I have food to eat of which you know nothing.”
4:33  Then the disciples began to say to one another, “No one has brought him something to eat, have they?”
4:34  Jesus said to them, · “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish the work he gave me to do.
4:35  Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up · your eyes and look at the fields; they are white, ready for harvest.
4:36  The reaper is already receiving wages and gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.
4:37  For in this the saying is true, ‘One · sows and another · reaps.’
4:38  I sent you to reap a crop for which you did not labor. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of · their labor.”
4:39  Many of the Samaritans from · · that town believed in him because of what the woman had said when she testified, “He told me everything that I ever did.”
4:40  When therefore the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them. · He stayed there for two days.
4:41  and many more believed because of what they heard from him.
4:42  They said to the woman, “No longer is it because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard him for ourselves, and we know that this man truly is the Savior of the world.”
4:43  Two days later · · Jesus left from there and went to · Galilee
4:44  (for Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in · his own country).
4:45  When he arrived in · Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem during the feast (for they too had gone to the feast).
4:46  So Jesus came again to · Cana in Galilee where he had made the water wine. Now in Capernaum there was a certain officer in the royal service whose · son was ill.
4:47  When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from · Judea, · he went to him and begged him to come down and heal his · son; for he was at the point of death.
4:48  Jesus therefore said · to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe!”
4:49  The officer said to him, “Sir, come down before my little boy dies.” ·
4:50  Jesus replied to him, · “Go, · your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, · and he set off for home.
4:51  While he was still · on his way down · his servants met him and told him that · his son was living.
4:52  So he asked them what time it was when his son got better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”
4:53  Then the father realized that it was at that very hour when Jesus had said to him, · · “Your son lives,” and he became a believer, as did · his entire household.
4:54  Now this was the second sign that Jesus performed · after coming from · Judea into · Galilee.