God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

When Jesus knew that the Pharisees heard He was making and baptizing more disciples than John

A woman of Samaria came to draw water.

“Give Me a drink,” Jesus said to her,

But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Yes, the Father wants such people to worship Him.

for His disciples had gone into town to buy food.

Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would ask Him, and He would give you living water.”

He had to travel through Samaria,

“Go call your husband,” He told her, “and come back here.”

“Sir,” the woman replied, “I see that You are a prophet.

“For you’ve had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”

But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again—ever! In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up within him for eternal life.”

“How is it that You, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” she asked Him. For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, yet you Jews say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.”

Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again.

Jesus told her, “Believe Me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

(though Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were),

He left Judea and went again to Galilee.

“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work,” Jesus told them.

Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, worn out from His journey, sat down at the well. It was about six in the evening.

so He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property that Jacob had given his son Joseph.

“Don’t you say, ‘There are still four more months, then comes the harvest’? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ready for harvest.

You aren’t greater than our father Jacob, are You? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.”

You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.

“Sir,” said the woman, “You don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do You get this ‘living water’?

“I don’t have a husband,” she answered.

“You have correctly said, ‘I don’t have a husband,’” Jesus said.

“Sir,” the woman said to Him, “give me this water so I won’t get thirsty and come here to draw water.”

“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did! Could this be the Messiah?”

“I am He,” Jesus told her, “the One speaking to you.”

They left the town and made their way to Him.

Then the woman left her water jar, went into town, and told the men,

In the meantime the disciples kept urging Him, “Rabbi, eat something.”

I sent you to reap what you didn’t labor for; others have labored, and you have benefited from their labor.”

Then He went again to Cana of Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. There was a certain royal official whose son was ill at Capernaum.

And they told the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this really is the Savior of the world.”

The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”

The reaper is already receiving pay and gathering fruit for eternal life, so the sower and reaper can rejoice together.

After two days He left there for Galilee.

Jesus told him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”

But He said, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

Now many Samaritans from that town believed in Him because of what the woman said when she testified, “He told me everything I ever did.”

Just then His disciples arrived, and they were amazed that He was talking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do You want?” or “Why are You talking with her?”

Therefore, when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed there two days.

The disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought Him something to eat?”

Many more believed because of what He said.

When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and pleaded with Him to come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

“Go,” Jesus told him, “your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus said to him and departed.

For in this case the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’

When they entered Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him because they had seen everything He did in Jerusalem during the festival. For they also had gone to the festival.

He asked them at what time he got better. “Yesterday at seven in the morning the fever left him,” they answered.

The father realized this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” Then he himself believed, along with his whole household.

This, therefore, was the second sign Jesus performed after He came from Judea to Galilee.

“Sir,” the official said to Him, “come down before my boy dies!”

While he was still going down, his slaves met him saying that his boy was alive.