Thematic Bible
John 4:1 (show verse)
Accordingly when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard it said, "Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John,"
John 4:2 (show verse)
(though Jesus himself was not accustomed to baptize, but his disciples),
John 4:3 (show verse)
he left Judea and returned to Galilee.
John 4:4 (show verse)
Now he had to pass through Samaria;
John 4:5 (show verse)
so he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
John 4:6 (show verse)
Jacob's Spring was there. So Jesus, tired out with his journey, was sitting thus by the spring.
John 4:7 (show verse)
It was about noon, and a woman of Samaria came to draw water.
John 4:8 (show verse)
Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink" (for his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food.)
John 4:9 (show verse)
"How is it," answered the Samaritan woman, "that you who are a Jew ask a drink from me, a woman, and a Samaritan?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
John 4:10 (show verse)
"If you had known the free gift of God," Jesus answered, "and who it is that says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water."
John 4:11 (show verse)
"Sir," said the woman, "you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; whence have you that living water?
John 4:12 (show verse)
Surely you are not greater than our Father Jacob, who gave us the well, and used to drink from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle, too?"
John 4:13 (show verse)
"All who drink of this water," Jesus answered, "will thirst again;
John 4:14 (show verse)
but whoever once drinks of the water that I will give him, shall never thirst any more, but the water that I will give him shall become a living spring of water within him, welling up into eternal life."
John 4:15 (show verse)
"Sir!" exclaimed the woman, "give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty, nor come all this way to draw water."
John 4:16 (show verse)
Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and then come here."
John 4:17 (show verse)
"I have no husband," answered the woman. "You are right in saying 'I have no husband,'" Jesus said to her,
John 4:18 (show verse)
"for you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband; in this you have spoken truly."
John 4:19 (show verse)
"I see, Sir, that you are a prophet," replied the woman.
John 4:20 (show verse)
"Our forefathers worshiped in this mountain, yet you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship."
John 4:21 (show verse)
"Woman, believe me," said Jesus, "that the hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
John 4:22 (show verse)
You are worshiping something you do not know. we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews.
John 4:23 (show verse)
But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father is seeking such as his worshipers.
John 4:24 (show verse)
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."
John 4:25 (show verse)
"I know," said the woman, "that Messiah is coming, who is called the Christ; when he has come he will tell us everything."
John 4:26 (show verse)
Jesus said to her, "I who am now talking to you, am he."
John 4:27 (show verse)
Just then his disciples came up, and were astonished that he was talking with a woman; yet not one of them asked him, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"
John 4:28 (show verse)
Then the woman left her water-jar, and went away into the city and began saying to the people.
John 4:29 (show verse)
"Come! see a man who has told me everything that I ever did. He can't be the Christ, can he?"
John 4:30 (show verse)
They left the city and set out to go to him.
John 4:31 (show verse)
Meanwhile the disciples kept urging him.
John 4:32 (show verse)
"Rabbi," they said, "eat something." But he answered, "I have food to eat of which you know nothing."
John 4:33 (show verse)
So the disciples began to say to one another, "Can any one have brought him something to eat?"
John 4:34 (show verse)
Jesus said to them. "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.
John 4:35 (show verse)
Do you not say, 'It wants yet four months, and then comes the harvest'? Look, I tell you! Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, that they are already white for harvest.
John 4:36 (show verse)
The reaper is already receiving wages and gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.
John 4:37 (show verse)
For in this respect the saying is true, 'One sows, another reaps.'
John 4:38 (show verse)
I sent you to reap a crop on which you have not toiled. Others have toiled, and you have reaped the benefit of their toil."
John 4:39 (show verse)
Many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman when she declared, "He told me everything that I ever did."
John 4:40 (show verse)
So when the Samaritans arrived, they began asking him to remain with them; and he stayed there two days.
John 4:41 (show verse)
Then many more believed because of what he said, himself; and they told the woman.
John 4:42 (show verse)
"We no longer believe because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard him, and we know that this is certainly the Saviour of the world."
John 4:43 (show verse)
After these two days Jesus went away from there into Galilee.
John 4:44 (show verse)
For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
John 4:45 (show verse)
When he reached Galilee, however, the Galileans welcomed him, for they had seen all that he did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they, too, had been at the feast.
John 4:46 (show verse)
So he came back again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. Now there was one of the king's officers whose son was lying ill at Capernaum.
John 4:47 (show verse)
When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him to come down and heal his son who was lying at the point of death.
John 4:48 (show verse)
Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you all see signs and wonders, you will not believe."
John 4:49 (show verse)
"Sir," said the king's officer, "come down before my little boy dies."
John 4:50 (show verse)
Jesus answered. "Go your way. Your son lives." And the man believed the word which Jesus spoke to him, and started to go home.
John 4:51 (show verse)
And when he was already on his way down, his slaves met him, saying that his boy was living.
John 4:52 (show verse)
So he asked them at what hour he had begun mend. They answered, "Yesterday, about one o'clock, the fever left him."
John 4:53 (show verse)
Then the father realized that it had left him at the very hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son lives," and he himself believed, and his whole household.
John 4:54 (show verse)
This is the second sign which Jesus performed, on returning from Judea to Galilee.