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4:1  So when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had been told 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 returned again to Galilee.
4:4  Now He had to go through Samaria.
4:5  So He arrived at a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the tract of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;
4:6  and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, tired as He was from His journey, sat down by the well. It was then about the sixth hour (noon).
4:7  Then a woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink”—
4:8  For His disciples had gone off into the city to buy food—
4:9  The Samaritan woman asked Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?” (For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.)
4:10  Jesus answered her, “If you knew [about] God’s gift [of eternal life], and who it is who says, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him [instead], and He would have given you living water (eternal life).”
4:11  She said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with [no bucket and rope] and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water?
4:12  Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and who used to drink from it himself, and his sons and his cattle also?”
4:13  Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.
4:14  But whoever drinks the water that I give him will never be thirsty again. But the water that I give him will become in him a spring of water [satisfying his thirst for God] welling up [continually flowing, bubbling within him] to eternal life.”
4:15  The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not get thirsty nor [have to continually] come all the way here to draw.”
4:16  At this, Jesus said, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
4:17  The woman answered, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I do not have a husband’;
4:18  for you have had five husbands, and the man you are now living with is not your husband. You have said this truthfully.”
4:19  The woman said to Him, “Sir, I see that You are a prophet.
4:20  Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one ought to worship is in Jerusalem [at the temple].”
4:21  Jesus replied, “Woman, believe Me, a time is coming [when God’s kingdom comes] when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
4:22  You [Samaritans] do not know what you worship; we [Jews] do know what we worship, for salvation is from the Jews.
4:23  But a time is coming and is already here when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit [from the heart, the inner self] and in truth; for the Father seeks such people to be His worshipers.
4:24  God is spirit [the Source of life, yet invisible to mankind], and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
4:25  The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ—the Anointed); when that One comes, He will tell us everything [we need to know].”
4:26  Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you, am He (the Messiah).”
4:27  Just then His disciples came, and they were surprised to find Him talking with a woman. However, no one said, “What are You asking about?” or, “Why are You talking to her?”
4:28  Then the woman left her water jar, and went into the city and began telling the people,
4:29  “Come, see a man who told me all the things that I have done! Can this be the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed)?”
4:30  So the people left the city and were coming to Him.
4:31  Meanwhile, the disciples were urging Jesus [to have a meal], saying, “Rabbi (Teacher), eat.”
4:32  But He told them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”
4:33  So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him something to eat?”
4:34  Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to completely finish His work.
4:35  Do you not say, ‘It is still four months until the harvest comes?’ Look, I say to you, raise your eyes and look at the fields and see, they are white for harvest.
4:36  Already the reaper is receiving his wages and he is gathering fruit for eternal life; so that he who plants and he who reaps may rejoice together.
4:37  For in this case the saying is true, ‘One [person] sows and another reaps.’
4:38  I sent you to reap [a crop] for which you have not worked. Others have worked and you have been privileged to reap the results of their work.”
4:39  Now many Samaritans from that city believed in Him and trusted Him [as Savior] because of what the woman said when she testified, “He told me all the things that I have done.”
4:40  So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked Him to remain with them; and He stayed there two days.
4:41  Many more believed in Him [with a deep, abiding trust] because of His word [His personal message to them];
4:42  and they told the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; for [now] we have heard Him for ourselves and know [with confident assurance] that this One is truly the Savior of [all] the world.”
4:43  After the two days He went on from there into Galilee.
4:44  For Jesus Himself declared that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
4:45  So when He arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him, since they had seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they too came to the feast.
4:46  So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son was sick in Capernaum.
4:47  Having heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to meet Him and began asking Him to come down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death.
4:48  Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you [people] see [miraculous] signs and wonders, you [simply] will not believe.”
4:49  The royal official pleaded with Him, “Sir, do come down [at once] before my child dies!”
4:50  Jesus said to him, “Go; your son lives!” The man believed what Jesus said to him and started home.
4:51  As he was already going down [the road], his servants met him and reported that his son was living [and was healthy].
4:52  So he asked them at what time he began to get better. They said, “Yesterday during 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 and his entire household believed and confidently trusted [in Him as Savior].
4:54  This is the second sign (attesting miracle) that Jesus performed [in Cana] after He had come from Judea to Galilee [revealing that He is the Messiah].