Thematic Bible




John 4:1 (show verse)

So when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had been told that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

John 4:2 (show verse)

(although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were),

John 4:3 (show verse)

He left Judea and returned again to Galilee.

John 4:4 (show verse)

Now He had to go through Samaria.

John 4:5 (show verse)

So He arrived at a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the tract of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;

John 4:6 (show verse)

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).

John 4:7 (show verse)

Then a woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink”—

John 4:8 (show verse)

For His disciples had gone off into the city to buy food—

John 4:9 (show verse)

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.)

John 4:10 (show verse)

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).”

John 4:11 (show verse)

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?

John 4:12 (show verse)

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?”

John 4:13 (show verse)

Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.

John 4:14 (show verse)

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.”

John 4:15 (show verse)

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.”

John 4:16 (show verse)

At this, Jesus said, “Go, call your husband and come back.”

John 4:17 (show verse)

The woman answered, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I do not have a husband’;

John 4:18 (show verse)

for you have had five husbands, and the man you are now living with is not your husband. You have said this truthfully.”

John 4:19 (show verse)

The woman said to Him, “Sir, I see that You are a prophet.

John 4:20 (show verse)

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one ought to worship is in Jerusalem [at the temple].”

John 4:21 (show verse)

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.

John 4:22 (show verse)

You [Samaritans] do not know what you worship; we [Jews] do know what we worship, for salvation is from the Jews.

John 4:23 (show verse)

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.

John 4:24 (show verse)

God is spirit [the Source of life, yet invisible to mankind], and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

John 4:25 (show verse)

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].”

John 4:26 (show verse)

Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you, am He (the Messiah).”

John 4:27 (show verse)

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?”

John 4:28 (show verse)

Then the woman left her water jar, and went into the city and began telling the people,

John 4:29 (show verse)

“Come, see a man who told me all the things that I have done! Can this be the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed)?”

John 4:30 (show verse)

So the people left the city and were coming to Him.

John 4:31 (show verse)

Meanwhile, the disciples were urging Jesus [to have a meal], saying, “Rabbi (Teacher), eat.”

John 4:32 (show verse)

But He told them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”

John 4:33 (show verse)

So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him something to eat?”

John 4:34 (show verse)

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to completely finish His work.

John 4:35 (show verse)

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.

John 4:36 (show verse)

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.
Awakenings and religious reforms » -hezekiah 2ch 30 » -Christ at samaria
religious Awakenings » -hezekiah 2ch 30 » -Christ at samaria
Converts » Instances of » The samaritans
Deathless » Conditions of receiving » Spiritual service
Eternal » Conditions of receiving » Spiritual service
Everlasting » Conditions of receiving » Spiritual service
Fruits » Illustrative » Of converts to the church
God's Promises » Of reward for spiritual service » The benevolent
Harvest » Spiritual, general references to
Jesus Christ » History of » Visits sychar and teaches the samaritan woman
Joy » Great joy, occasions of » In service
Joy » Soul-winners' » The sower and the reaper rejoice together
spiritual Labourers » Great opportunity afforded to
Life » Conditions of receiving » Spiritual service
Eternal life » Conditions of receiving » Spiritual service
Reaping » Spiritual harvest
Reaping » Persons engaged in » Received wages
Reward » For spiritual service » The benevolent
Samaria » Country of » Jesus travels through
Service » Immediate, examples of prompt response to the call of duty » Joy in, found by the faithful
Shechem » Also called sychar, a city of refuge in mount ephraim » Jesus visits; disciples made in
Sowing and reaping » Reaping, harvest of sin » Harvest, spiritual, general references to
Spiritual » Examples of growth » Harvest
Spiritual » Labourers » Great opportunity afforded to
the future » The rewards of the faithful for spiritual service » The benevolent
religious Work » Examples of » Joy in

John 4:37 (show verse)

For in this case the saying is true, ‘One [person] sows and another reaps.’

John 4:38 (show verse)

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.”

John 4:39 (show verse)

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.”

John 4:40 (show verse)

So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked Him to remain with them; and He stayed there two days.

John 4:41 (show verse)

Many more believed in Him [with a deep, abiding trust] because of His word [His personal message to them];

John 4:42 (show verse)

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.”

John 4:43 (show verse)

After the two days He went on from there into Galilee.

John 4:44 (show verse)

For Jesus Himself declared that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

John 4:45 (show verse)

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.

John 4:46 (show verse)

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.

John 4:47 (show verse)

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.

John 4:48 (show verse)

Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you [people] see [miraculous] signs and wonders, you [simply] will not believe.”

John 4:49 (show verse)

The royal official pleaded with Him, “Sir, do come down [at once] before my child dies!”

John 4:50 (show verse)

Jesus said to him, “Go; your son lives!” The man believed what Jesus said to him and started home.

John 4:51 (show verse)

As he was already going down [the road], his servants met him and reported that his son was living [and was healthy].

John 4:52 (show verse)

So he asked them at what time he began to get better. They said, “Yesterday during the seventh hour the fever left him.”

John 4:53 (show verse)

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].

John 4:54 (show verse)

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].