Chapter 4

  When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,  

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  (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)  

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  He left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.  

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  And he must needs go through Samaria.  

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  Then he cometh to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground, that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.  

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  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.  

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  There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith to her, Give me to drink.  

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  (For his disciples had gone to the city to buy provisions.)  

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  Then saith the woman of Samaria to him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.  

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  Jesus answered and said to her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldst have asked him, and he would have given thee living water.  

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  The woman saith to him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?  

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  Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his children, and his cattle?  

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  Jesus answered and said to her, Whoever drinketh of this water, shall thirst again:  

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  But whoever 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.  

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  The woman saith to him, Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, neither come hither to draw.  

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  Jesus saith to her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.  

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  The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:  

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  For thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband: in that thou hast spoken truth.  

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  The woman saith to him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.  

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  Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.  

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  Jesus saith to her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.  

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  Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship, for salvation is from the Jews.  

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  But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.  

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  God is a Spirit: and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth.  

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  The woman saith to him, I know that Messiah cometh, who is called Christ; when he is come, he will tell us all things.  

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  Jesus saith to her, I that speak to thee am he.  

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  And upon this came his disciples, and marveled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?  

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  The woman then left her waterpot, and went into the city, and saith to the men,  

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  Come, see a man who hath told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?  

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  Then they went out of the city, and came to him.  

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  In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.  

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  But he said to them, I have food to eat that ye know not of.  

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  Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him aught to eat?  

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  Jesus saith to them, My food is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.  

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  Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.  

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  And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit to life eternal: that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth, may rejoice together.  

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  And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.  

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  I sent you to reap that on which ye bestowed no labor: other men labored, and ye have entered into their labors.  

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  And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, who testified, He told me all that ever I did.  

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  So when the Samaritans had come to him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.  

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  And many more believed, because of his own word;  

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  And said to 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 Savior of the world.  

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  Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.  

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  For Jesus himself testified that a prophet hath no honor in his own country.  

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  Then when he had come into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went to the feast.  

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  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.  

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  When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.  

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  Then said Jesus to him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.  

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  The nobleman saith to him, Sir, come down ere my child dieth.  

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  Jesus saith to him, Go; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken to him, and he departed.  

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  And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth.  

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  Then he inquired of them the hour when he began to amend: and they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.  

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  So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, Thy son liveth: and he himself believed, and his whole house.  

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  This is again the second miracle that Jesus performed, when he had come from Judea into Galilee.  

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