Thematic Bible
John 4:1 (show verse)
When Jesus knew that the Pharisees heard He was making and baptizing more disciples than John
John 4:2 (show verse)
(though Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were),
John 4:3 (show verse)
He left Judea and went again to Galilee.
John 4:4 (show verse)
He had to travel through Samaria,
John 4:5 (show verse)
so He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property that Jacob had given his son Joseph.
John 4:6 (show verse)
Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, worn out from His journey, sat down at the well. It was about six in the evening.
John 4:7 (show verse)
A woman of Samaria came to draw water.
“Give Me a drink,” Jesus said to her,
John 4:8 (show verse)
for His disciples had gone into town to buy food.
John 4:9 (show verse)
“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.
John 4:10 (show verse)
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.”
John 4:11 (show verse)
“Sir,” said the woman, “You don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do You get this ‘living water’?
John 4:12 (show verse)
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.”
John 4:13 (show verse)
Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again.
John 4:14 (show verse)
John 4:15 (show verse)
“Sir,” the woman said to Him, “give me this water so I won’t get thirsty and come here to draw water.”
John 4:16 (show verse)
John 4:17 (show verse)
“I don’t have a husband,” she answered.
“You have correctly said, ‘I don’t have a husband,’” Jesus said.
John 4:18 (show verse)
John 4:19 (show verse)
“Sir,” the woman replied, “I see that You are a prophet.
John 4:20 (show verse)
Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, yet you Jews say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.”
John 4:21 (show verse)
Jesus told her, “Believe Me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
John 4:22 (show verse)
John 4:23 (show verse)
John 4:24 (show verse)
John 4:25 (show verse)
The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”
John 4:26 (show verse)
John 4:27 (show verse)
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?”
John 4:28 (show verse)
Then the woman left her water jar, went into town, and told the men,
John 4:29 (show verse)
“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did! Could this be the Messiah?”
John 4:30 (show verse)
They left the town and made their way to Him.
John 4:31 (show verse)
In the meantime the disciples kept urging Him, “Rabbi, eat something.”
John 4:32 (show verse)
But He said, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”
John 4:33 (show verse)
The disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought Him something to eat?”
John 4:34 (show verse)
John 4:35 (show verse)
John 4:36 (show verse)
John 4:37 (show verse)
John 4:38 (show verse)
John 4:39 (show verse)
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.”
John 4:40 (show verse)
Therefore, when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed there two days.
John 4:41 (show verse)
Many more believed because of what He said.
John 4:42 (show verse)
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.”
John 4:43 (show verse)
After two days He left there for Galilee.
John 4:44 (show verse)
Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
John 4:45 (show verse)
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.
John 4:46 (show verse)
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.
John 4:47 (show verse)
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.
John 4:48 (show verse)
Jesus told him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”
John 4:49 (show verse)
“Sir,” the official said to Him, “come down before my boy dies!”
John 4:50 (show verse)
John 4:51 (show verse)
While he was still going down, his slaves met him saying that his boy was alive.
John 4:52 (show verse)
He asked them at what time he got better. “Yesterday at seven in the morning the fever left him,” they answered.
John 4:53 (show verse)
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.
John 4:54 (show verse)
This, therefore, was the second sign Jesus performed after He came from Judea to Galilee.