John 4

The Offer of Living Water John 4:7–15

⁷Verse 7. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” ⁸Verse 8. For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. ⁹Verse 9. The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) ¹⁰Verse 10. Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” ¹¹Verse 11. The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water?

¹²Verse 12. Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his livestock?” ¹³Verse 13. Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, ¹⁴Verse 14. but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.” ¹⁵Verse 15. The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.”

Jesus Reveals Truth John 4:16–26

¹⁶Verse 16. Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” ¹⁷Verse 17. The woman answered, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’ ¹⁸Verse 18. for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.” ¹⁹Verse 19. The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. ²⁰Verse 20. Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” ²¹Verse 21. Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.

²²Verse 22. You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. ²³Verse 23. But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers. ²⁴Verse 24. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” ²⁵Verse 25. The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah comes, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things.” ²⁶Verse 26. Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.”

The Woman’s Testimony and Response John 4:27–42

²⁷Verse 27. At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?” ²⁸Verse 28. So the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people, ²⁹Verse 29. “Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?” ³⁰Verse 30. They went out of the city, and were coming to him. ³¹Verse 31. In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” ³²Verse 32. But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

³³Verse 33. The disciples therefore said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?” ³⁴Verse 34. Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work. ³⁵Verse 35. Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already. ³⁶Verse 36. He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. ³⁷Verse 37. For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’

³⁸Verse 38. I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.” ³⁹Verse 39. From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I did.” ⁴⁰Verse 40. So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days. ⁴¹Verse 41. Many more believed because of his word. ⁴²Verse 42. They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”

Signs and Faith in Galilee John 4:43–54

⁴³Verse 43. After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee. ⁴⁴Verse 44. For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. ⁴⁵Verse 45. So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast. ⁴⁶Verse 46. Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. ⁴⁷Verse 47. When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

⁴⁸Verse 48. Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.” ⁴⁹Verse 49. The nobleman said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” ⁵⁰Verse 50. Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. ⁵¹Verse 51. As he was now going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!” ⁵²Verse 52. So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him.” ⁵³Verse 53. So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” He believed, as did his whole house.

⁵⁴Verse 54. This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.