Thematic Bible




John 4:1 (show verse)

When therefore the Lord knew, that the Pharisees had heard, Jesus maketh and baptizeth more disciples than John,

John 4:2 (show verse)

(Tho' Jesus himself batized not;

John 4:3 (show verse)

but his disciples) He left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.

John 4:4 (show verse)

And he must needs go thro' Samaria. Then cometh he to a city of Samaria,

John 4:5 (show verse)

called Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

John 4:6 (show verse)

Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore being wearied with the journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

John 4:7 (show verse)

There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith to her, Give me to drink.

John 4:8 (show verse)

(For his disciples were gone to the city to buy meat.)

John 4:9 (show verse)

Then saith the woman of Samaria to him, How dost thou, being a Jew, ask drink of me, who am a woman of Samaria? For the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

John 4:10 (show verse)

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

John 4:11 (show verse)

The woman saith to him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then hast thou that living water?

John 4:12 (show verse)

Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and himself drank thereof, and his children, and his cattle?

John 4:13 (show verse)

Jesus answered and said to her, Whosoever drinketh of this water, will thirst again.

John 4:14 (show verse)

But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, will never thirst; but the water that I shall give him, will be in him a fountain of water, springing up into everlasting life.

John 4:15 (show verse)

The woman saith to him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.

John 4:16 (show verse)

Jesus saith to her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

John 4:17 (show verse)

The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband.

John 4:18 (show verse)

For thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband: in this thou saidst truly.

John 4:19 (show verse)

The woman saith to him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

John 4:20 (show verse)

Our fathers worshiped in this mountain: but ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

John 4:21 (show verse)

Jesus saith to her, Woman, Believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor at Jerusalem, worship the Father.

John 4:22 (show verse)

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

John 4:23 (show verse)

But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father seeketh such worshipers.

John 4:24 (show verse)

God is a spirit, and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth.

John 4:25 (show verse)

The woman saith to him, I know that the Messiah is coming, who is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.

John 4:26 (show verse)

Jesus saith to her, I that speak to thee, am He.

John 4:27 (show verse)

And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with a woman. Yet none said, What seekest thou? Or, Why talkest thou with her?

John 4:28 (show verse)

The woman then left her water-pot, and went to the city, and saith to the men, Come, see a man who told me all things that ever I did:

John 4:29 (show verse)

Is not this the Christ?

John 4:30 (show verse)

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

John 4:31 (show verse)

In the mean time his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.

John 4:32 (show verse)

But he said to them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. The disciples said one to another, Hath any man brought him to eat?

John 4:33 (show verse)

Jesus saith to them,

John 4:34 (show verse)

My meat is, to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

John 4:35 (show verse)

Say ye not, There are yet four months, and the harvest cometh? Lo, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and survey the fields, for they are white already to harvest.

John 4:36 (show verse)

And he that reapeth, receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit to life eternal, that both he that soweth and he that reapeth 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)

And herein is the saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.

John 4:38 (show verse)

I have sent you to reap that whereon ye have bestowed no labour: others have laboured, and ye are entered into their labour.

John 4:39 (show verse)

And many of the Samaritans out of that city believed on him, for the saying of the woman testifying, He told me all that ever I did.

John 4:40 (show verse)

So when the Samaritans were come to him, they besought him to tarry with them.

John 4:41 (show verse)

And he abode there two days. And many more believed,

John 4:42 (show verse)

because of his word, And said to the woman, We no longer believe, because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.

John 4:43 (show verse)

After the two days, he departed thence, and went into Galilee.

John 4:44 (show verse)

(Now Jesus himself had testified, That a prophet hath not honour in his own country.)

John 4:45 (show verse)

And when he was come into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast. For they also had come to the feast.

John 4:46 (show verse)

So he came again to Cana of Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.

John 4:47 (show verse)

When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and besought him, to come down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death.

John 4:48 (show verse)

Jesus said to him, Unless ye see signs and wonders, ye will in no wise believe.

John 4:49 (show verse)

The nobleman saith to him, Sir, come down, ere my child die.

John 4:50 (show verse)

Jesus saith to him, Go: thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus spake to him, and he went.

John 4:51 (show verse)

And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, Thy son liveth.

John 4:52 (show verse)

Then he asked of them the hour when he amended. And they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

John 4:53 (show verse)

So the father knew, it was at the same hour, in which Jesus had said to him, Thy son liveth. And himself believed, and his whole house.

John 4:54 (show verse)

This second miracle again Jesus wrought, being come out of Judea into Galilee.