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John 4:1 (show verse)

When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

John 4:2 (show verse)

(although Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples),

John 4:3 (show verse)

he left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.

John 4:4 (show verse)

And he must needs pass through Samaria.

John 4:5 (show verse)

So he cometh to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph:

John 4:6 (show verse)

and Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

John 4:7 (show verse)

There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

John 4:8 (show verse)

For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food.

John 4:9 (show verse)

The Samaritan woman therefore saith unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a Samaritan woman? (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

John 4:10 (show verse)

Jesus answered and said unto unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

John 4:11 (show verse)

The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then hast thou that living water?

John 4:12 (show verse)

Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle?

John 4:13 (show verse)

Jesus answered and said unto her, Every one that drinketh of this water shall thirst again:

John 4:14 (show verse)

but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life.

John 4:15 (show verse)

The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come all the way hither to draw.

John 4:16 (show verse)

Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

John 4:17 (show verse)

The woman answered and said unto him, I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her, Thou saidst well, I have no husband:

John 4:18 (show verse)

for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: this hast thou said truly.

John 4:19 (show verse)

The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

John 4:20 (show verse)

Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

John 4:21 (show verse)

Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father.

John 4:22 (show verse)

Ye worship that which ye know not: we worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

John 4:23 (show verse)

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek to be his worshippers.

John 4:24 (show verse)

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

John 4:25 (show verse)

The woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah cometh (he that is called Christ): when he is come, he will declare unto us all things.

John 4:26 (show verse)

Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he .

John 4:27 (show verse)

And upon this came his disciples; and they marvelled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her?

John 4:28 (show verse)

So the woman left her waterpot, and went away into the city, and saith to the people,

John 4:29 (show verse)

Come, see a man, who told me all things that ever I did: can this be the Christ?

John 4:30 (show verse)

They went out of the city, and were coming to him.

John 4:31 (show verse)

In the mean while the disciples prayed him, saying, Rabbi, eat.

John 4:32 (show verse)

But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not.

John 4:33 (show verse)

The disciples therefore said one to another, Hath any man brought him aught to eat?

John 4:34 (show verse)

Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.

John 4:35 (show verse)

Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh the harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are white already unto harvest.

John 4:36 (show verse)

He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal; that he that soweth and he that reapeth 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 herein is the saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.

John 4:38 (show verse)

I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored: others have labored, and ye are entered into their labor.

John 4:39 (show verse)

And from that city many of the Samaritans believed on him because of the word of the woman, who testified, He told me all things that ever I did.

John 4:40 (show verse)

So when the Samaritans came unto him, they besought him to abide with them: and he abode there two days.

John 4:41 (show verse)

And many more believed because of his word;

John 4:42 (show verse)

and they said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy speaking: for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.

John 4:43 (show verse)

And after the two days he went forth from thence into Galilee.

John 4:44 (show verse)

For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honor in his own country.

John 4:45 (show verse)

So when he came into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.

John 4:46 (show verse)

He came therefore again unto Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.

John 4:47 (show verse)

When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son; for he was at the point of death.

John 4:48 (show verse)

Jesus therefore said unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will in no wise believe.

John 4:49 (show verse)

The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.

John 4:50 (show verse)

Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. The man believed the word that Jesus spake unto him, and he went his way.

John 4:51 (show verse)

And as he was now going down, his servants met him, saying, that his son lived.

John 4:52 (show verse)

So he inquired of them the hour when he began to amend. They said therefore unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

John 4:53 (show verse)

So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house.

John 4:54 (show verse)

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