Thematic Bible




John 4:1 (show verse)

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

John 4:2 (show verse)

though Jesus himself indeed baptized not, but his disciples,

John 4:3 (show verse)

he left Judea and departed again to Galilee.

John 4:4 (show verse)

And it was necessary that he should pass through Samaria.

John 4:5 (show verse)

He came, therefore, to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the lot which Jacob gave his son Joseph.

John 4:6 (show verse)

And Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being fatigued with travelling sat thus by the well; it was about the sixth hour [noon].

John 4:7 (show verse)

A woman of Samaria came 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 provisions.

John 4:9 (show verse)

Then the Samaritan woman said to him, How do you, being a Jew, ask a drink of me, who am a Samaritan? for the Jews do no business with the Samaritans.

John 4:10 (show verse)

Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that 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)

The woman said to him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; whence then have you the living water?

John 4:12 (show verse)

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

John 4:13 (show verse)

Jesus answered and said to her, Every one that drinks of this water will thirst again;

John 4:14 (show verse)

but whoever drinks of the water which I will give him shall never thirst; but the water which I will give him shall be in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.

John 4:15 (show verse)

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

John 4:16 (show verse)

He said to her, Go and 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 said well, 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. In this you have spoken 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 worshipped in this mountain, and you say that Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

John 4:21 (show verse)

Jesus said to her, Believe me, woman, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, you shall worship the Father.

John 4:22 (show verse)

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

John 4:23 (show verse)

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

John 4:24 (show verse)

God is a Spirit, and those that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

John 4:25 (show verse)

The woman said to him, I know that the Messiah is coming, called Christ; when he comes he will tell us all things.

John 4:26 (show verse)

Jesus said to her, I that speak to you am [the Messiah].

John 4:27 (show verse)

And upon this his disciples came, and wondered that he talked with the woman; but no one said to him, What do you seek? or why do you talk with her?

John 4:28 (show verse)

Then the woman left her bucket, and went to the city, and said to the men,

John 4:29 (show verse)

Come and see a man who has told me all things which I have done; is this the Christ?

John 4:30 (show verse)

They came out from the city and came to him.

John 4:31 (show verse)

In the meantime the disciples asked him saying, Rabbi, eat.

John 4:32 (show verse)

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

John 4:33 (show verse)

Then the disciples said one to another, Has any one brought him food to eat?

John 4:34 (show verse)

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

John 4:35 (show verse)

Do you not say, There are yet four months, and the harvest comes? behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and see the fields; for they are white for a harvest.

John 4:36 (show verse)

Already he that reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for life eternal, that 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)

For in this is the saying true; He that sows is one, and he that reaps is another.

John 4:38 (show verse)

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

John 4:39 (show verse)

And many of the Samaritans in that city believed on him, on account of the word of the woman, testifying, He told me all things which I have done.

John 4:40 (show verse)

When, therefore, the Samaritans came to him, they desired him to remain with them; and he remained there two days.

John 4:41 (show verse)

And many more believed on account of his word,

John 4:42 (show verse)

and said to the woman, We no longer believe on account of your report, for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is truly the Saviour of the world.

John 4:43 (show verse)

AND after two days he departed thence to Galilee.

John 4:44 (show verse)

For Jesus himself testified that a prophet is without honor in his native country.

John 4:45 (show verse)

When, therefore, he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all that he did at Jerusalem at the feast; for they also came to the feast.

John 4:46 (show verse)

Then he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.

John 4:47 (show verse)

Hearing that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and desired him to come down and cure his son, for he was about to die.

John 4:48 (show verse)

Then Jesus said to him, Unless you see miracles and prodigies you will not believe.

John 4:49 (show verse)

The nobleman said to him, Lord, come down before my child dies.

John 4:50 (show verse)

Jesus said to him, Go; your son lives. The man believed the word which Jesus said to him, and went.

John 4:51 (show verse)

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

John 4:52 (show verse)

Then he inquired of them the hour in which he became better. Then they said to him, The fever left him yesterday, at the seventh hour.

John 4:53 (show verse)

Then the father knew that it was in that hour in which Jesus said to him, Your son lives; and he believed, and all his house.

John 4:54 (show verse)

This second miracle did Jesus, having come from Judea into Galilee.