CHAPTER 4
When
Jesus
realized
that
the
Pharisees
were aware
that
He
was gaining
and
baptizing
more
disciples
than
John
So
He came
to
a town
of Samaria
called
Sychar,
near
the
plot of ground
Jacob
had given
to
his
son
Joseph.
Since
Jacob’s
well
was
there,
Jesus,
weary
from
His
journey,
sat down
by
the
well.
It was
about
the sixth
hour.
“You are
a Jew,”
said
the
woman.
“How
can You
ask for
a drink
from
me,
a Samaritan
woman?”
(For
Jews
do not associate
with Samaritans.)
Jesus
answered,
“If
you knew
the
gift
of God
and
who
is
asking
you
for
a drink,
you
would have asked
Him,
and
He would have given
you
living
water."
“Sir,”
the
woman
replied,
“You have
nothing
to draw with
and
the
well
is
deep.
Where
then
will You get
this
living
water?
Are
You
greater than
our
father
Jacob,
who
gave
us
this
well
and
drank
from
it
himself,
as did
his
sons
and
his
livestock?"
But
whoever
drinks
the
water
I
give
him
will never thirst.
Indeed,
the
water
I give
him
will become
in
him
a fount
of water
springing up
to
eternal
life."
The
woman
said
to
Him,
“Sir,
give
me
this
water
so that
I will not get thirsty
and
have to keep coming
here
to draw water.”
“I have
no
husband,”
the
woman
replied.
Jesus
said
to her,
“You are
correct to say
that
you have
no
husband.
In fact,
you have had
five
husbands,
and
the man
you now have
is
not
your
husband.
You have spoken
truthfully.”
Our
forefathers
worshiped
on
this
mountain,
but
you Jews
say
that
the
place
where
one must
worship
is
in
Jerusalem.”
“Believe
Me,
woman,”
Jesus
replied,
“a time
is coming
when
you will worship
the
Father
neither
on
this
mountain
nor
in
Jerusalem.
But
a time
is coming
and
has now
come
when
the
TRUE
worshipers
will worship
the
Father
in
spirit
and
in truth,
for
the
Father
is seeking
such
as these
to worship
Him.
The
woman
said,
“I know
that
Messiah”
(
called
Christ)
“is coming.
When
He
comes,
He will explain
everything
to us.”
Just then,
His
disciples
returned
and
were astonished
that
He was speaking
with
a woman.
But
no one
asked Him,
“What
do You want from her?”
or,
“Why
are You talking
with
her?”
Do you
not
say,
‘There are
still
four months
until
the
harvest’?
I tell
you,
lift up
your
eyes
and
look at
the
fields,
for
they are
ripe
for
harvest.
Already the
reaper
draws
his wages
and
gathers
a crop
for
eternal
life,
so that
the
sower
and
the
reaper
may rejoice
together.
I
sent
you
to reap
what
you
have not worked for;
others
have done the hard work,
and
now you
have taken up
their
labor.”
Many
of the
Samaritans
from
that
town
believed
in
Jesus
because of
the
woman’s
testimony,
“He told
me
everything
I ever did.”
They said
to the
woman,
“We now believe
not only
because of
your
words;
we have heard
for ourselves,
and
we know
that
this man
truly
is
the
Savior
of the
world.”
Yet
when
He arrived,
the
Galileans
welcomed
Him.
They had seen
all the great things
He had done
in
Jerusalem
at
the
feast,
for
they
had gone
there
as well.
So
once again
He came
to
Cana
in Galilee,
where
He had turned
the
water
into wine.
And
there was
a
royal official
whose
son
lay sick
at
Capernaum.
When he
heard
that
Jesus
had come
from
Judea
to
Galilee,
he went
and
begged
Him
to
come down
and
heal
his
son,
who was about
to die.
So
he inquired as to
the
hour
when
his son had recovered,
and
they told
him,
“The
fever
left
him
yesterday
at the seventh
hour.”
Then
the
father
realized
that
this was the very
hour
in
which
Jesus
had told
him,
“Your
son
will live.”
And
he
and
all
his
household
believed.