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John 4:1 (show verse)

Now when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard that He was winning and baptizing more disciples than John --

John 4:2 (show verse)

though Jesus Himself was not baptizing, it was His disciples --

John 4:3 (show verse)

He left Judea and went back again to Galilee.

John 4:4 (show verse)

And He had to go through Samaria.

John 4:5 (show verse)

So He came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the field which Jacob gave to his son Joseph;

John 4:6 (show verse)

and Jacob's spring was there. So Jesus, tired from His journey, was sitting by the spring just as He was. It was about 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 into the town to buy some food.

John 4:9 (show verse)

So the Samaritan woman said to Him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.

John 4:10 (show verse)

Jesus answered her, "If you just knew what God has to give and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask Him, and He would have given you living water."

John 4:11 (show verse)

She said to Him, "You have nothing to draw with, sir, and the well is deep. Where do you get your living water?

John 4:12 (show verse)

You are not greater than our forefather Jacob, are you, who gave us this well, and drank from it himself, with all his sons and flocks?"

John 4:13 (show verse)

Jesus answered her, "Anyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again;

John 4:14 (show verse)

but whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never, no never, be thirsty again, for the water that I will give him will become a spring of water that keeps on bubbling up within him for eternal life."

John 4:15 (show verse)

The woman said to Him, "Give me this water at once, sir, so I may never get thirsty again, nor have to come so far to draw water."

John 4:16 (show verse)

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

John 4:17 (show verse)

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

John 4:18 (show verse)

for you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true."

John 4:19 (show verse)

The woman said to Him, "I see that you are a prophet.

John 4:20 (show verse)

Our forefathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship Him."

John 4:21 (show verse)

Jesus said to her, "Believe me, woman, the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

John 4:22 (show verse)

You Samaritans do not know what you are worshiping; we Jews do know what we are worshiping; for salvation comes from the Jews.

John 4:23 (show verse)

But a time is coming -- indeed, it is already here -- when the real worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and reality, for the Father is looking for just such worshipers.

John 4:24 (show verse)

God is a spiritual Being, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and reality."

John 4:25 (show verse)

The woman said to Him, "I know that the Messiah is coming, the One who is called the Christ. When He comes, He will tell us everything."

John 4:26 (show verse)

Jesus said to her, "I, the very one who is talking to you, am He!"

John 4:27 (show verse)

Just then His disciples came up, and they were surprised to find Him talking with a woman, yet not one of them asked Him, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"

John 4:28 (show verse)

The woman then left her pitcher and went back to town and said to the people,

John 4:29 (show verse)

"Come, see a man who has told me everything I ever did. He is not the Christ, is He?"

John 4:30 (show verse)

So the people left town and rushed out to see Him.

John 4:31 (show verse)

Meanwhile the disciples were asking Him, and saying, "Teacher, eat something."

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 began to say to one another, "Nobody has brought Him anything to eat, has he?"

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)

Are you not saying, 'In four months more the harvest comes'? Look! I tell you, lift up your eyes and scan the fields, for they are already white for harvesting.

John 4:36 (show verse)

Now the reaper is already getting pay, for he is gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the 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 in this matter the adage is true, 'One sows, another reaps.'

John 4:38 (show verse)

I have sent you to reap a harvest which you have not labored to make. Other men have labored, but you have reaped the results of their labors."

John 4:39 (show verse)

Many of the Samaritans in that town believed in Him because of the woman's testimony, when she said, "He has told me everything I ever did."

John 4:40 (show verse)

So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they kept on urging Him to stay with them; so He did stay there two days.

John 4:41 (show verse)

Then a much larger number believed in Him because of what He said Himself,

John 4:42 (show verse)

and they were saying to the woman, "It is not merely because of what you said that we now believe, for we have heard Him ourselves, and we know that He is really the Saviour of the world."

John 4:43 (show verse)

After the two days were over, Jesus left there and went on to Galilee,

John 4:44 (show verse)

for He Himself declared that a prophet had no honor in his own country.

John 4:45 (show verse)

So when He reached Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him, for they had seen everything that He had done at the feast in Jerusalem, for they too had attended the feast.

John 4:46 (show verse)

So He came back to Cana in Galilee where He had turned the water into wine. Now there was at Capernaum an officer of the king's court whose son was sick.

John 4:47 (show verse)

When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to Him and began to beg Him to come down and cure his son, for he was at the point of death.

John 4:48 (show verse)

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

John 4:49 (show verse)

The king's officer pleaded with Him, "Sir, come down at once before my child is dead!"

John 4:50 (show verse)

Jesus said to him, "You may go; your son is going to live." The man believed what Jesus said to him and started home.

John 4:51 (show verse)

While he was still coming down, his slaves met him and told him, "Your boy is going to live."

John 4:52 (show verse)

So he asked them at what hour he began to get better, and they said to him, "Yesterday at one o'clock the fever left him."

John 4:53 (show verse)

Then the father knew that that was the very hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son is going to live." So he and his whole household believed in Jesus.

John 4:54 (show verse)

This is the second wonder-work that Jesus performed after He had come back from Judea to Galilee.