May 22, 23
John 4
Joh 4:1 Therefore when
the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and
baptizing more disciples than John
Joh 4:2 (although Jesus
himself didn't baptize, but his disciples),
Joh 4:3 he left Judea,
and departed into Galilee.
Joh 4:4 He needed to
pass through Samaria.
Joh 4:5 So he came to a
city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob
gave to his son, Joseph.
Joh 4:6 Jacob's well
was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by
the well. It was about the sixth hour.
Joh 4:7 A woman of
Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a
drink."
Joh 4:8 For his
disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
Joh 4:9 The Samaritan
woman therefore said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew,
ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no
dealings with Samaritans.)
Joh 4:10 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."
Joh 4:11 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?
Joh 4:12 Are you
greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it
himself, as did his children, and his livestock?"
Joh 4:13 Jesus answered
her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,
Joh 4:14 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."
Joh 4:15 The woman said
to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I don't get thirsty,
neither come all the way here to draw."
Joh 4:16 Jesus said to
her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."
Joh 4:17 The woman
answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You
said well, 'I have no husband,'
Joh 4:18 for you have
had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This
you have said truly."
Joh 4:19 The woman said
to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
Joh 4:20 Our fathers
worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the
place where people ought to worship."
Joh 4:21 Jesus said to
her, "Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this
mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.
Joh 4:22 You worship
that which you don't know. We worship that which we know; for
salvation is from the Jews.
Joh 4:23 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.
Joh 4:24 God is spirit,
and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."
Joh 4:25 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."
Joh 4:26 Jesus said to
her, "I am he, the one who speaks to you."
Joh 4:27 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?"
Joh 4:28 So the woman
left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the
people,
Joh 4:29 "Come,
see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?"
Joh 4:30 They went out
of the city, and were coming to him.
Joh 4:31 In the
meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."
Joh 4:32 But he said to
them, "I have food to eat that you don't know about."
Joh 4:33 The disciples
therefore said one to another, "Has anyone brought him something
to eat?"
Joh 4:34 Jesus said to
them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to
accomplish his work.
Joh 4:35 Don't you say,
'There are yet four months until the harvest?' Behold, I tell you,
lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white for
harvest already.
Joh 4:36 He who reaps
receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who
sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
Joh 4:37 For in this
the saying is true, 'One sows, and another reaps.'
Joh 4:38 I sent you to
reap that for which you haven't labored. Others have labored, and you
have entered into their labor."
Joh 4:39 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."
Joh 4:40 So when the
Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed
there two days.
Joh 4:41 Many more
believed because of his word.
Joh 4:42 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 Christ,
the Savior of the world."
Joh 4:43 After the two
days he went out from there and went into Galilee.
Joh 4:44 For Jesus
himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
Joh 4:45 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.
Joh 4:46 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.
Joh 4:47 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.
Joh 4:48 Jesus
therefore said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you
will in no way believe."
Joh 4:49 The nobleman
said to him, "Sir, come down before my child dies."
Joh 4:50 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.
Joh 4:51 As he was now
going down, his servants met him and reported, saying "Your
child lives!"
Joh 4:52 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."
Joh 4:53 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.
Joh 4:54 This is again
the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into
Galilee.