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John 4:1 (show verse)

Therefore 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 was not baptizing, but His disciples were),

John 4:3 (show verse)

He left Judea and went away again into Galilee.

John 4:4 (show verse)

And He had to pass through Samaria.

John 4:5 (show verse)

So He *came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;

John 4:6 (show verse)

and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, being wearied from His journey, was sitting thus 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)

Therefore the Samaritan woman *said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

John 4:10 (show verse)

Jesus answered and said to 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.”

John 4:11 (show verse)

She *said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; where then do You get that living water?

John 4:12 (show verse)

You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle?”

John 4:13 (show verse)

Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again;

John 4:14 (show verse)

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

John 4:15 (show verse)

The woman *said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, so I will not be thirsty nor come all the way here to draw.”

John 4:16 (show verse)

He *said to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.”

John 4:17 (show verse)

The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus *said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘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 in this mountain, and you people say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.”

John 4:21 (show verse)

Jesus *said to her, “Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in 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 an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.

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 (He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us.”

John 4:26 (show verse)

Jesus *said to her, I who speak to you am He.”

John 4:27 (show verse)

At this point His disciples came, and they were amazed that He had been speaking with a woman, yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why do You speak with her?”

John 4:28 (show verse)

So the woman left her waterpot, and went into the city and *said to the men,

John 4:29 (show verse)

“Come, see a man who told me all the things that I have done; this is not the Christ, is it?”

John 4:30 (show verse)

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

John 4:31 (show verse)

Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

John 4:32 (show verse)

But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”

John 4:33 (show verse)

So the disciples were saying to one another, “No one brought Him anything to eat, did he?”

John 4:34 (show verse)

Jesus *said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.

John 4:35 (show verse)

Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest.

John 4:36 (show verse)

Already he who reaps is receiving wages and is gathering fruit for life eternal; so that he who sows and he who 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)

For in this case 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)

From that city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all the things that I have done.”

John 4:40 (show verse)

So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they were asking Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.

John 4:41 (show verse)

Many more believed because of His word;

John 4:42 (show verse)

and they were saying to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One is indeed the Savior of the world.”

John 4:43 (show verse)

After the two days He went forth from there 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)

So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves also went to the feast.

John 4:46 (show verse)

Therefore He came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a royal official whose son was sick at Capernaum.

John 4:47 (show verse)

When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and was imploring Him to come down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death.

John 4:48 (show verse)

So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you simply will not believe.”

John 4:49 (show verse)

The royal official *said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

John 4:50 (show verse)

Jesus *said to him, Go; your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started off.

John 4:51 (show verse)

As he was now going down, his slaves met him, saying that his son was living.

John 4:52 (show verse)

So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. Then 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 that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives”; and he himself believed and his whole household.

John 4:54 (show verse)

This is again a second sign that Jesus performed when He had come out of Judea into Galilee.