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John 4:1 (show verse)

Now when 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 did not baptize, but only his disciples),

John 4:3 (show verse)

he left Judea and departed again to Galilee.

John 4:4 (show verse)

Now he had to go through Samaria.

John 4:5 (show verse)

So he came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

John 4:6 (show verse)

Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

John 4:7 (show verse)

There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

John 4:8 (show verse)

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

John 4:9 (show verse)

Then the woman of Samaria said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

John 4:10 (show verse)

Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a 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 nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?

John 4:12 (show verse)

Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his cattle?"

John 4:13 (show verse)

Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,

John 4:14 (show verse)

but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. The water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."

John 4:15 (show verse)

The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw."

John 4:16 (show verse)

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

John 4:17 (show verse)

The woman answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband';

John 4:18 (show verse)

for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly."

John 4:19 (show verse)

The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

John 4:20 (show verse)

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship."

John 4:21 (show verse)

Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the 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, for salvation is from the Jews.

John 4:23 (show verse)

But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him.

John 4:24 (show verse)

God is spirit, and those 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" (who is called Christ). "When he comes, he will tell us all things."

John 4:26 (show verse)

Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am he."

John 4:27 (show verse)

Just then his disciples came. And they marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, "What do you wish?" or, "Why are you talking with her?"

John 4:28 (show verse)

Then the woman left her water jar, and went away into the city, and said to the people,

John 4:29 (show verse)

"Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?"

John 4:30 (show verse)

They went out of the city and came to him.

John 4:31 (show verse)

Meanwhile his disciples urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."

John 4:32 (show verse)

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

John 4:33 (show verse)

So the disciples said to one another, "Has any one brought him food?"

John 4:34 (show verse)

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work.

John 4:35 (show verse)

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

John 4:36 (show verse)

And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper 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 here the saying is true, 'One sows and another reaps.'

John 4:38 (show verse)

I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."

John 4:39 (show verse)

Many of the Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me all that I ever did."

John 4:40 (show verse)

So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged 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)

They said to the woman, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man is indeed the Savior of the world."

John 4:43 (show verse)

After the two days he departed to Galilee.

John 4:44 (show verse)

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

John 4:45 (show verse)

So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they too had gone to the feast.

John 4:46 (show verse)

So he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was sick.

John 4:47 (show verse)

When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

John 4:48 (show verse)

Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe."

John 4:49 (show verse)

The 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 went his way.

John 4:51 (show verse)

As he was going down, his servants met him and told him that his son was living.

John 4:52 (show verse)

So he inquired of them the hour when his son got better, and 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 at the same hour in which Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live." And he himself believed, and all his household.

John 4:54 (show verse)

This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.