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John 4:1 (show verse)

Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

John 4:2 (show verse)

(although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples),

John 4:3 (show verse)

he left Judea and departed again for Galilee.

John 4:4 (show verse)

And it was necessary [for] him to go through Samaria.

John 4:5 (show verse)

Now he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

John 4:6 (show verse)

And Jacob's well was there, so Jesus, [because he] had become tired from the journey, simply sat down at the well. It was about the sixth hour.

John 4:7 (show verse)

A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me [water] to drink."

John 4:8 (show verse)

(For his disciples had gone away into the town so that they could buy food.)

John 4:9 (show verse)

So the Samaritan woman said to him, "How do you, being a Jew, ask from me [water] to drink, [since I] am a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

John 4:10 (show verse)

Jesus answered and said to her, "If you had known the gift of God and who it is who says to you, 'Give me [water] to drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."

John 4:11 (show verse)

The woman said to him, "Sir, you have no bucket and the well is deep! From where then do you get this living water?

John 4:12 (show verse)

You are not greater than our father Jacob, [are you], who gave us the well and drank from it himself, and his sons and his livestock?"

John 4:13 (show verse)

Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again.

John 4:14 (show verse)

But whoever drinks of this water which I will give to him will never be thirsty for eternity, but the water which I will give to him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."

John 4:15 (show verse)

The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or come here to draw [water]!"

John 4:16 (show verse)

He said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here."

John 4:17 (show verse)

The woman answered and said to him, "I do not have a husband." Jesus said to her, "You have said rightly, 'I do not have a husband,'

John 4:18 (show verse)

for you have had five husbands, and [the one] whom you have now is not your husband; this you have said 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, and you [people] say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary to worship."

John 4:21 (show verse)

Jesus said to her, "Believe me, woman, that an hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

John 4:22 (show verse)

You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.

John 4:23 (show verse)

But an hour is coming--and now is [here]--when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for indeed the Father seeks such [people] [to be] his worshipers.

John 4:24 (show verse)

God [is] spirit, and the ones 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" (the one called Christ); "whenever that one comes, he will proclaim all [things] to us."

John 4:26 (show verse)

Jesus said to her, "I, the one speaking to you, am [he].

John 4:27 (show verse)

And at this [point] his disciples came, and they were astonished that he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, "What do you seek?" or "Why are you speaking with her?"

John 4:28 (show verse)

So the woman left her water jar and went away into the town and said to the people,

John 4:29 (show verse)

"Come, see a man who told me everything I have ever done! Perhaps this one is the Christ?"

John 4:30 (show verse)

They went out from the town and were coming to him.

John 4:31 (show verse)

In the meanwhile the disciples were asking him, saying, "Rabbi, eat [something]!"

John 4:32 (show verse)

But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about."

John 4:33 (show verse)

So the disciples began to say to one another, "No one brought him [anything] to eat, [did they]?"

John 4:34 (show verse)

Jesus said to them, "My food is that I do the will of the one who sent me and complete his work.

John 4:35 (show verse)

Do you not say, 'There are yet four months and the harvest comes'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.

John 4:36 (show verse)

The one who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for eternal life, in order that the one who sows and the one who reaps can 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 [instance] the saying is true, 'It is one who sows and another who reaps.'

John 4:38 (show verse)

I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have worked, and you have entered into their work."

John 4:39 (show verse)

Now from that town many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman who testified, "He told me everything that I have done."

John 4:40 (show verse)

So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them. And he stayed there two days.

John 4:41 (show verse)

And many more believed because of his word,

John 4:42 (show verse)

And they were saying to the woman, "No longer because of {what you said} do we believe, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this one is truly the Savior of the world!"

John 4:43 (show verse)

And after the two days he departed from there into Galilee.

John 4:44 (show verse)

For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own homeland.

John 4:45 (show verse)

So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, [because they] had seen all [the things] he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had also come to the feast).

John 4:46 (show verse)

Now he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And [there] was at Capernaum a certain royal official whose son was sick.

John 4:47 (show verse)

This man, [when he] heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, went to him and asked that he come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

John 4:48 (show verse)

So Jesus said to him, "Unless you [people] see signs and wonders, you will never believe!"

John 4:49 (show verse)

The royal official said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies!"

John 4:50 (show verse)

Jesus said to him, "Go, your son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he departed.

John 4:51 (show verse)

Now [as] he was going down, his slaves met him, saying that his child was alive.

John 4:52 (show verse)

So he inquired from them the hour at which he had gotten better. Then they said to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him."

John 4:53 (show verse)

So the father knew that [it was] that same hour at which Jesus said to him, "Your son will live," and he himself believed, and his whole household.

John 4:54 (show verse)

Now this [is] again a second sign Jesus performed [when he] came from Judea into Galilee.