1Now when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John,
2—although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were—
3he left Judea and departed again for Galilee.
4And he had to pass through Samaria.
5So he comes to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, tired from the journey, was sitting by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7A woman of Samaria comes to draw water. Jesus says to her, ‘Give me a drink.’
8For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
9The Samaritan woman therefore says to him, ‘How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?’ (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
10Jesus answered and said to her, ‘If you knew the gift of God and who it is that says to you, “Give me a drink,” you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.’
11She says to him, ‘Sir, you have no bucket and the well is deep. From where, then, do you get that living water?’
12Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his livestock?
13Jesus answered and said to her, ‘Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again,
14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. Instead, the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.’
15The woman says to him, ‘Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw.’
16He says to her, ‘Go, call your husband, and come here.’
17The woman answered and said, ‘I have no husband.’ Jesus says to her, ‘You have correctly said, “I have no husband,”’
18for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. In this you have spoken the truth.’
19The woman says to him, ‘Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
20Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you people say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.’
21Jesus says to her, ‘Believe me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
22You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
23But an hour is coming, and now is here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to be his worshipers.
24God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and truth.’
25The woman says to him, ‘I know that Messiah is coming (who is called Christ). When he comes, he will declare all things to us.’
26Jesus says to her, ‘I who speak to you am he.’
27Just then his disciples came, and they were amazed that he was speaking with a woman. Yet no one said, ‘What are you seeking?’ or, ‘Why are you speaking with her?’
28So the woman left her water jar and went into the city, and she says to the people,
29‘Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Can this be the Christ?’
30They went out of the city and were coming toward him.
31Meanwhile, the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
32But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”
33So the disciples said to one another, “Has someone brought him something to eat?”
34Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.”
35Do you not say, ‘There are still four months, and then the harvest comes’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are white for harvest.
36Already the one who reaps is receiving a wage and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.
37For in this case the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’
38I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
39Now many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all the things I have ever done.”
40So when the Samaritans came to him, they kept asking him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.
41And many more believed because of his word,
42and they said to the woman, “It is no longer because of your report that we believe, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world.”
43Now after the two days, he departed from there for Galilee.
44For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.
45So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all the things he did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they also had gone to the feast.
46So he came again to Cana of Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son was sick in Capernaum.
47When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and began to ask him to come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.
48So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe.”
49The royal official said to him, “Lord, come down before my child dies.”
50Jesus said to him, “Go; your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way.
51And as he was already on his way down, his servants met him, saying that his son lives.
52So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him.”
53So the father knew that it was at that hour that Jesus had said to him, “Your son lives.” And he himself believed, and his whole household.
54This was now the second sign that Jesus performed after coming from Judea into Galilee.
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