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John 4:1 (show verse)

Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus makes and baptizes more disciples than John,

John 4:2 (show verse)

(Though Jesus himself immersed not, but his disciples,)

John 4:3 (show verse)

He left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.

John 4:4 (show verse)

And it was necessary for him to pass through Samaria.

John 4:5 (show verse)

Then comes he to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the place which Jacob gave to Joseph his son.

John 4:6 (show verse)

And Jacob's spring was there. Then Jesus, wearied with the journey, sat thus by the spring: it was about the sixth hour.

John 4:7 (show verse)

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

John 4:8 (show verse)

(For his disciples were gone into the city that they might buy food.)

John 4:9 (show verse)

Then says the Samaritan woman to him, How thou, being a Jew, askest of me to drink, being a Samaritan woman? for the Jews have no intercourse with the Samaritans.

John 4:10 (show verse)

And Jesus answered and said to her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who he is saying to thee, Give me to drink: thou hadst asked him, and he had given thee living water.

John 4:11 (show verse)

The woman says to him, Lord, thou hest no vessel for drawing, and the well is deep; whence then hast thou the living water?

John 4:12 (show verse)

Thou art not greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and he himself drank of it, and his sons, and his young animals.

John 4:13 (show verse)

Jesus answered and said to her, All drinking of this water shall thirst again:

John 4:14 (show verse)

But whoever should drink of the water which I shall give him, shall never thirst; but the water which I shall give him shall be in him a spring of water springing up to eternal life.

John 4:15 (show verse)

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

John 4:16 (show verse)

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

John 4:17 (show verse)

The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus says to her, Thou sayest well, That I have no husband:

John 4:18 (show verse)

For thou hadst five husbands; and now he whom thou hast is not thy husband: this thou saidst true.

John 4:19 (show verse)

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

John 4:20 (show verse)

Our fathers worshipped in this mount; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where they must worship.

John 4:21 (show verse)

Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, that the hour comes, when neither in this mount, neither in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father.

John 4:22 (show verse)

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

John 4:23 (show verse)

But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for also the Father seeks such worshipping him.

John 4:24 (show verse)

God a Spirit: and they worshipping him must worship in spirit and truth.

John 4:25 (show verse)

The woman says to him, I know that Messias comes, called Christ: when he should come, he will announce all things to us.

John 4:26 (show verse)

Jesus says to her, I am he speaking to thee.

John 4:27 (show verse)

And upon this his disciples came, and they wondered that he spake with the woman: yet none said, What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her?

John 4:28 (show verse)

The woman then left her water buckets and departed to the city, and says to the men,

John 4:29 (show verse)

Come, see a man, who told me all which I ever did: is not this Christ?

John 4:30 (show verse)

Then went they forth out of the city, and came to him.

John 4:31 (show verse)

And in the mean time the disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, eat.

John 4:32 (show verse)

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

John 4:33 (show verse)

Then said the disciples to one another, Has any one brought him to eat?

John 4:34 (show verse)

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

John 4:35 (show verse)

Say ye not, That there is yet the fourth month, and harvest comes? behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and behold the countries; for they are already white for harvest.

John 4:36 (show verse)

And he reaping receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life: that he sowing might rejoice together and he reaping.
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 word is true, That one is sowing, and another reaping.

John 4:38 (show verse)

I sent you to reap that with which ye have not been wearied: some have been wearied, and others have come into their labor.

John 4:39 (show verse)

And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in him for the woman's word testifying, That he told me all which I ever did.

John 4:40 (show verse)

When therefore the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to remain with them: and he remained there two days.

John 4:41 (show verse)

And many more believed on account of his word;

John 4:42 (show verse)

And they said to the woman, That we no more believe for thy speaking: for we ourselves have heard and know, that this is truly Christ, the Saviour of the world.

John 4:43 (show verse)

And after two days he came out thence, and departed to Galilee.

John 4:44 (show verse)

For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet has no honour in his own country.

John 4:45 (show verse)

When therefore he came to Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all which he did in Jerusalem in the festival: for they also came to the festival.

John 4:46 (show verse)

Then came Jesus again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain royal one, whose son was sick in Capernanm.

John 4:47 (show verse)

He, having heard that Jesus was come from Judea to Galilee, went away to him, and asked him that he would go down and heal his son: for he was about to die.

John 4:48 (show verse)

Then said Jesus to him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye would not believe.

John 4:49 (show verse)

The royal one says to Him, Lord, go down before my child dies.

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 he went.

John 4:51 (show verse)

And he already going down, his servants met him, and announced, saying, That thy child lives.

John 4:52 (show verse)

Then he inquired of them the hour in which he was attended to. And they said to him, That yesterday the seventh hour the fever left him.

John 4:53 (show verse)

Then the father knew that in that hour in which Jesus said to him, That thy son lives: and he believed, and his whole house.

John 4:54 (show verse)

This second sign Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.