Thematic Bible
John 4:1 (show verse)
Therefore when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
John 4:2 (show verse)
(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples),
John 4:3 (show verse)
he left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.
John 4:4 (show verse)
He needed to pass through Samaria.
John 4:5 (show verse)
So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.
John 4:6 (show verse)
Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
John 4:7 (show verse)
A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."
John 4:8 (show verse)
For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
John 4:9 (show verse)
The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, "How can you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
John 4:10 (show verse)
Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
John 4:11 (show verse)
The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From where then have you that living water?
John 4:12 (show verse)
Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his livestock?"
John 4:13 (show verse)
Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,
John 4:14 (show verse)
but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."
John 4:15 (show verse)
The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I do not get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw."
John 4:16 (show verse)
Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."
John 4:17 (show verse)
The woman answered and said to him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You said well, 'I have no husband,'
John 4:18 (show verse)
for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly."
John 4:19 (show verse)
The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
John 4:20 (show verse)
Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship."
John 4:21 (show verse)
Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.
John 4:22 (show verse)
You worship that which you do not know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
John 4:23 (show verse)
But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers.
John 4:24 (show verse)
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."
John 4:25 (show verse)
The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah comes," (he who is called Christ). "When he has come, he will declare to us all things."
John 4:26 (show verse)
Jesus said to her, "I am he, the one who speaks to you."
John 4:27 (show verse)
At this, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you looking for?" or, "Why do you speak with her?"
John 4:28 (show verse)
So the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people,
John 4:29 (show verse)
"Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Messiah?"
John 4:30 (show verse)
They went out of the city, and were coming to him.
John 4:31 (show verse)
In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."
John 4:32 (show verse)
But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about."
John 4:33 (show verse)
The disciples therefore said one to another, "Has anyone 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, 'There are yet four months until the harvest?' Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes and see the fields, that they are white for harvest already.
John 4:36 (show verse)
He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
John 4:37 (show verse)
For in this the saying is true, 'One sows, and another reaps.'
John 4:38 (show verse)
I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."
John 4:39 (show verse)
From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, "He told me everything that I did."
John 4:40 (show verse)
So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.
John 4:41 (show verse)
Many more believed because of his word.
John 4:42 (show verse)
They said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Savior of the world."
John 4:43 (show verse)
After the two days he went out from there and went 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)
So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast.
John 4:46 (show verse)
Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.
John 4:47 (show verse)
When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.
John 4:48 (show verse)
Jesus therefore said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe."
John 4:49 (show verse)
The nobleman said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."
John 4:50 (show verse)
Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your son lives." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.
John 4:51 (show verse)
As he was now going down, his servants met him, saying that his son was alive.
John 4:52 (show verse)
So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him."
John 4:53 (show verse)
So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives." He believed, as did his whole house.
John 4:54 (show verse)
This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.