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John 4:1 (show verse)

When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus more disciples doth make and baptize than John,

John 4:2 (show verse)

(though indeed Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples,)

John 4:3 (show verse)

he left Judea and went away again to Galilee,

John 4:4 (show verse)

and it was behoving him to go through Samaria.

John 4:5 (show verse)

He cometh, therefore, to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the place that Jacob gave to Joseph his son;

John 4:6 (show verse)

and there was there a well of Jacob. Jesus therefore having been weary from the journeying, was sitting thus on the well; it was as it were the sixth hour;

John 4:7 (show verse)

there cometh a woman out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith to her, 'Give me to drink;'

John 4:8 (show verse)

for his disciples were gone away to the city, that they may buy victuals;

John 4:9 (show verse)

the Samaritan woman therefore saith to him, 'How dost thou, being a Jew, ask drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?' for Jews have no dealing with Samaritans.

John 4:10 (show verse)

Jesus answered and said to her, 'If thou hadst known the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked him, and he would have given thee living water.'

John 4:11 (show verse)

The woman saith to him, 'Sir, thou hast not even a vessel to draw with, and the well is deep; whence, then, hast thou the living water?

John 4:12 (show verse)

Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who did give us the well, and himself out of it did drink, and his sons, and his cattle?'

John 4:13 (show verse)

Jesus answered and said to her, 'Every one who is drinking of this water shall thirst again;

John 4:14 (show verse)

but whoever may drink of the water that I will give him, may not thirst -- to the age; and the water that I will give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up to life age-during.'

John 4:15 (show verse)

The woman saith unto him, 'Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.'

John 4:16 (show verse)

Jesus saith to her, 'Go, call thy husband, and come hither;'

John 4:17 (show verse)

the woman answered and said, 'I have not a husband.' Jesus saith to her, 'Well didst thou say -- A husband I have not;

John 4:18 (show verse)

for five husbands thou hast had, and, now, he whom thou hast is not thy husband; this hast thou said truly.'

John 4:19 (show verse)

The woman saith to him, 'Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet;

John 4:20 (show verse)

our fathers in this mountain did worship, and ye -- ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where it behoveth to worship.'

John 4:21 (show verse)

Jesus saith to her, 'Woman, believe me, that there doth come an hour, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father;

John 4:22 (show verse)

ye worship what ye have not known; we worship what we have known, because the salvation is of the Jews;

John 4:23 (show verse)

but, there cometh an hour, and it now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also doth seek such to worship him;

John 4:24 (show verse)

God is a Spirit, and those worshipping Him, in spirit and truth it doth behove to worship.'

John 4:25 (show verse)

The woman saith to him, 'I have known that Messiah doth come, who is called Christ, when that one may come, he will tell us all things;'

John 4:26 (show verse)

Jesus saith to her, 'I am he, who am speaking to thee.'

John 4:27 (show verse)

And upon this came his disciples, and were wondering that with a woman he was speaking, no one, however, said, 'What seekest thou?' or 'Why speakest thou with her?'

John 4:28 (show verse)

The woman then left her water-jug, and went away to the city, and saith to the men,

John 4:29 (show verse)

Come, see a man, who told me all things -- as many as I did; is this the Christ?'

John 4:30 (show verse)

They went forth therefore out of the city, and were coming unto him.

John 4:31 (show verse)

And in the meanwhile his disciples were asking him, saying, 'Rabbi, eat;'

John 4:32 (show verse)

and he said to them, 'I have food to eat that ye have not known.'

John 4:33 (show verse)

The disciples then said one to another, 'Did any one bring him anything to eat?'

John 4:34 (show verse)

Jesus saith to them, 'My food is, that I may do the will of Him who sent me, and may finish His work;

John 4:35 (show verse)

do not say that it is yet four months, and the harvest cometh; lo, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and see the fields, that they are white unto harvest already.

John 4:36 (show verse)

'And he who is reaping doth receive a reward, and doth gather fruit to life age-during, that both he who is sowing and he who is reaping 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 the saying is the true one, that one is the sower and another the reaper.

John 4:38 (show verse)

I sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others laboured, and ye into their labour have entered.

John 4:39 (show verse)

And from that city many believed in him, of the Samaritans, because of the word of the woman testifying, -- 'He told me all things -- as many as I did.'

John 4:40 (show verse)

When, then, the Samaritans came unto him, they were asking him to remain with them, and he remained there two days;

John 4:41 (show verse)

and many more did believe because of his word,

John 4:42 (show verse)

and said to the woman -- 'No more because of thy speaking do we believe; for we ourselves have heard and known that this is truly the Saviour of the world -- the Christ.'

John 4:43 (show verse)

And after the two days he went forth thence, and went away to Galilee,

John 4:44 (show verse)

for Jesus himself testified that a prophet in his own country shall not have honour;

John 4:45 (show verse)

when then, he came to Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all things that he did in Jerusalem in the feast -- for they also went to the feast.

John 4:46 (show verse)

Jesus came, therefore, again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine, and there was a certain courtier, whose son was ailing in Capernaum,

John 4:47 (show verse)

he, having heard that Jesus is come out of Judea to Galilee, went away unto him, and was asking him that he may come down and may heal his son, for he was about to die.

John 4:48 (show verse)

Jesus then said unto him, 'If signs and wonders ye may not see, ye will not believe.'

John 4:49 (show verse)

The courtier saith unto him, 'Sir, come down before my child die;'

John 4:50 (show verse)

Jesus saith to him, 'Be going on; thy son doth live.' And the man believed the word that Jesus said to him, and was going on,

John 4:51 (show verse)

and he now going down, his servants met him, and told, saying -- 'Thy child doth live;'

John 4:52 (show verse)

he inquired then of them the hour in which he became better, and they said to him -- 'Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him;'

John 4:53 (show verse)

then the father knew that it was in that hour in which Jesus said to him -- 'Thy son doth live,' and he himself believed, and his whole house;

John 4:54 (show verse)

this again a second sign did Jesus, having come out of Judea to Galilee.