John 4Book 43 of 66 · 54 verses · MBT primary, NKJV fallback where MBT pending

Now the Lord became aware that the Pharisees had heard He was making and baptizing more disciples than John —
though Jesus Himself was not baptizing; His disciples were —
so He left Judea and went back into Galilee.
And He had to pass through Samaria.
So He came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
Jacob's well was there. Jesus, worn out from the journey, sat down just as He was, beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.
A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink" —
for His disciples had gone off into the town to buy food.
So the Samaritan woman said to Him, "How is it that You, a Jew, are asking me for a drink — a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water."
"Sir," she said to Him, "You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then would You get this living water?
Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself — along with his sons and his livestock?"
Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again.
But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again — ever. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
The woman said to Him, "Sir, give me this water, so I will not be thirsty — and so I will not have to keep coming here to draw."
He told her, "Go, call your husband, and come back here."
The woman answered, "I do not have a husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I do not have a husband' —
for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true."
"Sir," the woman said to Him, "I see that You are a prophet.
Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem."
Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe Me — an hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know — for salvation is from the Jews.
But an hour is coming, and is already here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth — for these are the worshipers the Father is seeking.
God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth."
The woman said to Him, "I know that Messiah is coming — the one called 'Christ.' When He comes, He will explain everything to us."
Jesus said to her, "I am He — the One speaking to you."
Just then, His disciples came back. They were amazed that He was speaking with a woman. But none of them asked, "What do You want?" or "Why are You talking with her?"
So the woman left her water jar, went off into the town, and said to the people,
"Come — see a Man who told me everything I have ever done! Could this possibly be the Christ?"
They went out of the town and were coming toward Him.
Meanwhile, the disciples were urging Him, "Rabbi, eat something."
But He told them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about."
So the disciples said to one another, "Could someone have brought Him something to eat?"
Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of the One who sent Me, and to finish His work.
Do you not say, 'Four more months, and then the harvest'? Look — I tell you — lift up your eyes and see the fields: they are already white, ready for harvest.
The reaper is already being paid; he is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.
For in this the saying rings true: 'One sows, and another reaps.'
I sent you to reap what you did not labor for. Others have labored, and you have come into the benefit of their labor."
Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, "He told me everything I ever did."
So when the Samaritans came to Him, they urged Him to stay with them — and He stayed there two days.
And many more believed because of His word.
They said to the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe — now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this truly is the Savior of the world."
After the two days, He left there for Galilee.
For Jesus Himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.
So when He came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him — they had seen everything He had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they too had gone to the feast.
He came again to Cana in Galilee, where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son was sick in Capernaum.
When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and begged Him to come down and heal his son — for he was at the point of death.
So Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe."
The royal official said to Him, "Sir, come down before my little boy dies!"
Jesus said to him, "Go — your son lives." The man believed the word Jesus had spoken to him, and went on his way.
As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his boy was alive.
So he asked them what hour he began to get better. They told him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him."
Then the father knew that it was at that very hour Jesus had said to him, "Your son lives." And he himself believed — and his whole household.
This was now the second sign Jesus performed, when He had come from Judea into Galilee.