Thematic Bible
John 4:1 (show verse)
The Lord was aware that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John.
John 4:2 (show verse)
Actually Jesus did not baptize. His disciples baptized.
John 4:3 (show verse)
He left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.
John 4:4 (show verse)
He needed to travel through Samaria.
John 4:5 (show verse)
He arrived at a city of Samaria called Sychar. It is near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
John 4:6 (show verse)
Jacob's well was there. It was about the sixth hour when Jesus arrived. Being weary from the journey he sat down by the well.
John 4:7 (show verse)
A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her: Please give me a drink.
John 4:8 (show verse)
His disciples went away to the city to buy meat.
John 4:9 (show verse)
The woman of Samaria asked: How is it that you being a Jew ask for a drink from me? I am a woman of Samaria. [The Jews did not associate with Samaritans.] (Not in early manuscripts.)
John 4:10 (show verse)
Jesus answered: If you know the gift of God and who asked you for a drink, you would have asked him to give you living water.
John 4:11 (show verse)
The woman said to him: Sir, you do not have anything with which to draw water and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?
John 4:12 (show verse)
Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well. He and his children and cattle drank from it.
John 4:13 (show verse)
Jesus answered: Whoever drinks from this water will thirst again.
John 4:14 (show verse)
But whoever drinks from the water that I give him will never thirst. The water that I will give him will be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
John 4:15 (show verse)
The woman said to him: Sir, give me this water! That way I will not thirst and not come 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: I have no husband. Jesus replied to her: You said well, I have no husband.
John 4:18 (show verse)
For you have had five husbands. The one you have now is not your husband, this is true.
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 worshipped in this mountain. But you say Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
John 4:21 (show verse)
Jesus replied: Woman believe me. The hour comes when you will worship the Father neither in the mountain nor in Jerusalem.
John 4:22 (show verse)
You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know. Salvation is from the Jews.
John 4:23 (show verse)
But the hour comes and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father with spirit and truth. The Father seeks such people to worship him.
John 4:24 (show verse)
God is a Spirit. They who worship him must worship him with spirit and truth.
John 4:25 (show verse)
The woman responded: I know that Christ the Messiah is coming. When he comes he will tell us all things.
John 4:26 (show verse)
Jesus said: I that speak to you am he.
John 4:27 (show verse)
His disciples came and wondered why he talked with the woman. Yet no one asked: What are you looking for? Why did you talk to her?
John 4:28 (show verse)
The woman left her water pot and went to the city. She spoke to the men.
John 4:29 (show verse)
Come see a man who told me everything I have ever done. Could this be the Christ?
John 4:30 (show verse)
They left the city to see him.
John 4:31 (show verse)
In the meantime his disciples urged him to eat.
John 4:32 (show verse)
He said: I have food to eat that you do not know about.
John 4:33 (show verse)
So the disciples said to each other: Has any man brought him something to eat?
John 4:34 (show verse)
Jesus said: My food is to do the will of him that sent me. To finish his work!
John 4:35 (show verse)
Do you say there are four months until the harvest comes? I say to you lift up your eyes and look on the fields. They are already white for harvest.
John 4:36 (show verse)
He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for life eternal. Both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
John 4:37 (show verse)
That saying is true. One sows and another reaps.
John 4:38 (show verse)
I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Other men labored and you entered into their labors.
John 4:39 (show verse)
Many Samaritans of that city put faith (believed) in him because of what the woman said: He told me everything I have ever done.
John 4:40 (show verse)
When the Samaritans came to him they urged him to stay with them. So he stayed there two days.
John 4:41 (show verse)
Many more believed because of the words he spoke.
John 4:42 (show verse)
They told the woman: We believe because of what you said and we heard him ourselves. We know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world!
John 4:43 (show verse)
After two days he departed from there and went to Galilee.
John 4:44 (show verse)
Jesus testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
John 4:45 (show verse)
The Galileans welcomed him. They saw all the things he did at the feast in Jerusalem for they were at the feast.
John 4:46 (show verse)
Jesus returned to Cana of Galilee where he turned the water into wine. There was a nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.
John 4:47 (show verse)
He heard that Jesus came from Judea into Galilee. He went to him and urged him to come see his son. His son was near death.
John 4:48 (show verse)
Until you see signs and wonders you will not believe, Jesus said.
John 4:49 (show verse)
The nobleman said: Sir, come or my child would die.
John 4:50 (show verse)
Jesus replied: 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)
His servants met him as he returned and said: Your son is alive!
John 4:52 (show verse)
He asked them about the hour he was healed. They said: Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
John 4:53 (show verse)
The father knew that it was the same hour in which Jesus said: Your son lives. He and his entire household believed.
John 4:54 (show verse)
This is the second miracle that Jesus did when he came out of Judea into Galilee.