Thematic Bible




John 4:1 (show verse)

When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus makes and baptises more disciples than John

John 4:2 (show verse)

(however, Jesus himself did not baptise, but his disciples),

John 4:3 (show verse)

he left Judaea and went away again unto Galilee.

John 4:4 (show verse)

And he must needs pass through Samaria.

John 4:5 (show verse)

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

John 4:6 (show verse)

Now a fountain of Jacob's was there; Jesus therefore, being wearied with the way he had come, sat just as he was at the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.

John 4:7 (show verse)

A woman comes out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus says to her, Give me to drink

John 4:8 (show verse)

(for his disciples had gone away into the city that they might buy provisions).

John 4:9 (show verse)

The Samaritan woman therefore says to him, How dost thou, being a Jew, ask to drink of me who am a Samaritan woman? for Jews have no intercourse with Samaritans.

John 4:10 (show verse)

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

John 4:11 (show verse)

The woman says to him, Sir, thou hast nothing 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 gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?

John 4:13 (show verse)

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

John 4:14 (show verse)

but whosoever drinks of the water which I shall give him shall never thirst for ever, but the water which I shall give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into eternal life.

John 4:15 (show verse)

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

John 4:16 (show verse)

Jesus says to her, Go, call thy husband, and come here.

John 4:17 (show verse)

The woman answered and said, I have not a husband. Jesus says to her, Thou hast well said, I have not a husband;

John 4:18 (show verse)

for thou hast had five husbands, and he whom now thou hast is not thy husband: this thou hast spoken truly.

John 4:19 (show verse)

The woman says to him, Sir, I see that thou art a prophet.

John 4:20 (show verse)

Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship.

John 4:21 (show verse)

Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when ye shall neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem worship the Father.

John 4:22 (show verse)

Ye worship ye know not what; we worship what we know, for salvation is of the Jews.

John 4:23 (show verse)

But the hour is coming and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for also the Father seeks such as his worshippers.

John 4:24 (show verse)

God is a spirit; and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth.

John 4:25 (show verse)

The woman says to him, I know that Messias is coming, who is called Christ; when he comes he will tell us all things.

John 4:26 (show verse)

Jesus says to her, I who speak to thee am he.

John 4:27 (show verse)

And upon this came his disciples, and wondered that he spoke with a woman; yet no one said, What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her?

John 4:28 (show verse)

The woman then left her waterpot and went away into the city, and says to the men,

John 4:29 (show verse)

Come, see a man who told me all things I had ever done: is not he the Christ?

John 4:30 (show verse)

They went out of the city and came to him.

John 4:31 (show verse)

But meanwhile the disciples asked him saying, Rabbi, eat.

John 4:32 (show verse)

But he said to them, I have food to eat which ye do not know.

John 4:33 (show verse)

The disciples therefore said to one another, Has any one brought him anything to eat?

John 4:34 (show verse)

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

John 4:35 (show verse)

Do not ye say, that there are yet four months and the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, for they are already white to harvest.

John 4:36 (show verse)

He that reaps receives wages and gathers fruit unto life eternal, that both 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 verified the true saying, It is one who sows and another who reaps.

John 4:38 (show verse)

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

John 4:39 (show verse)

But many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman who bore witness, He told me all things that I had ever done.

John 4:40 (show verse)

When therefore the Samaritans came to him they asked him to abide with them, and he abode there two days.

John 4:41 (show verse)

And more a great deal believed on account of his word;

John 4:42 (show verse)

and they said to the woman, It is no longer on account of thy saying that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.

John 4:43 (show verse)

But after the two days he went forth thence and went away into Galilee,

John 4:44 (show verse)

for Jesus himself bore witness that a prophet has no honour in his own country.

John 4:45 (show verse)

When therefore he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem during the feast, for they also went to the feast.

John 4:46 (show verse)

He came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain courtier in Capernaum whose son was sick.

John 4:47 (show verse)

He, having heard that Jesus had come out of Judaea into Galilee, went to him and asked him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

John 4:48 (show verse)

Jesus therefore said to him, Unless ye see signs and wonders ye will not believe.

John 4:49 (show verse)

The courtier says to him, Sir, come down ere my child die.

John 4:50 (show verse)

Jesus says to him, Go, thy son lives. And the man believed the word which Jesus said to him, and went his way.

John 4:51 (show verse)

But already, as he was going down, his servants met him and brought him word saying, Thy child lives.

John 4:52 (show verse)

He inquired therefore from them the hour at which he got better. And they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

John 4:53 (show verse)

The father therefore knew that it was in that hour in which Jesus said to him, Thy son lives; and he believed, himself and his whole house.

John 4:54 (show verse)

This second sign again did Jesus, being come out of Judaea into Galilee.