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John 4:1 (show verse)

When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,

John 4:2 (show verse)

(Though 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 go through Samaria.

John 4:5 (show verse)

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

John 4:6 (show verse)

Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.

John 4:7 (show verse)

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

John 4:8 (show verse)

(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy food.)

John 4:9 (show verse)

Then said the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that you, being a Jew, ask drink of me, who am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

John 4:10 (show verse)

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

John 4:11 (show verse)

The woman said unto him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from where then have you that living water?

John 4:12 (show verse)

Are you 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, Whosoever drinks of this water shall thirst again:

John 4:14 (show verse)

But whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

John 4:15 (show verse)

The woman said unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come here to draw.

John 4:16 (show verse)

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

John 4:17 (show verse)

The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, You have well said, I have no husband:

John 4:18 (show verse)

For you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband: that said you truly.

John 4:19 (show verse)

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

John 4:20 (show verse)

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

John 4:21 (show verse)

Jesus said unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when you shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.

John 4:22 (show verse)

You worship you know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

John 4:23 (show verse)

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

John 4:24 (show verse)

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

John 4:25 (show verse)

The woman said unto him, I know that Messiah comes, who is called Christ: when he comes, he will tell us all things.

John 4:26 (show verse)

Jesus said unto her, I that speak unto you am he.

John 4:27 (show verse)

And upon this came his disciples, and marveled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seek you? or, Why talk you with her?

John 4:28 (show verse)

The woman then left her water pot, and went her way into the city, and said to the men,

John 4:29 (show verse)

Come, see a man, who told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?

John 4:30 (show verse)

Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.

John 4:31 (show verse)

In the meanwhile his disciples besought him, saying, Teacher, eat.

John 4:32 (show verse)

But he said unto them, I have food to eat that you know not of.

John 4:33 (show verse)

Therefore said the disciples one to another, has any man brought him anything to eat?

John 4:34 (show verse)

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

John 4:35 (show verse)

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

John 4:36 (show verse)

And he that reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit unto life eternal: that both he that sows and he that reaps 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)

And in this is that saying true, One sows, and another reaps.

John 4:38 (show verse)

I sent you to reap that on which you bestowed no labor: other men labored, and you are entered into their labors.

John 4:39 (show verse)

And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, who testified, He told me all that ever I did.

John 4:40 (show verse)

So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.

John 4:41 (show verse)

And many more believed because of his own word;

John 4:42 (show verse)

And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of your saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.

John 4:43 (show verse)

Now after two days he departed from there, and went into 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)

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

John 4:46 (show verse)

So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain official, whose son was sick at Capernaum.

John 4:47 (show verse)

When he heard that Jesus came out of Judea 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)

Then said Jesus unto him, Except you see signs and wonders, you will not believe.

John 4:49 (show verse)

The official said unto him, Sir, come down lest my child die.

John 4:50 (show verse)

Jesus said unto him, Go your way; your son lives. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.

John 4:51 (show verse)

And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Your son lives.

John 4:52 (show verse)

Then inquired he of them the hour when he began to mend. And they said unto 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 said unto him, Your son lives: and he himself believed, and his whole house.

John 4:54 (show verse)

This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he came out of Judea into Galilee.