1When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2( although Jesus himself baptized not , but his disciples ), 3he left Judæa , and departed again into Galilee . 4And he must needs pass through Samaria . 5So he cometh to a city of Samaria , called Sychar , near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph : 6and Jacob ’s well was there . Jesus therefore , being wearied with his journey , sat thus by the well . It was about the sixth hour . 7There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water : Jesus saith unto her , Give me to drink . 8For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food . 9The Samaritan woman therefore saith unto him , How is it that thou , being a Jew , askest drink of me , who am a Samaritan woman ? ( For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10Jesus answered and said unto her , If thou knewest the gift of God , and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink ; thou wouldest have asked of him , and he would have given thee living water . 11The woman saith unto him , Sir , thou hast nothing to draw with , and the well is deep: whence then hast thou that living water ? 12Art thou greater than our father Jacob , who gave us the well , and drank thereof himself, and his sons , and his cattle ? 13Jesus answered and said unto her , Every one that drinketh of this water shall thirst again : 14but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst ; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life . 15The woman saith unto him , Sir , give me this water , that I thirst not , neither come all the way hither to draw. 16Jesus saith unto her , Go , call thy husband, and come hither . 17The woman answered and said unto him , I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her , Thou saidst well , I have no husband: 18for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: this hast thou said truly. 19The woman saith unto him , Sir , I perceive that thou art a prophet . 20Our fathers worshipped in this mountain ; and ye say , that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship . 21Jesus saith unto her , Woman , believe me , the hour cometh , when neither in this mountain , nor in Jerusalem , shall ye worship the Father . 22Ye worship that which ye know not : we worship that which we know ; for salvation is from the Jews . 23But the hour cometh , and now is , when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek to be his worshippers . 24God is a Spirit : and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth. 25The woman saith unto him , I know that Messiah cometh ( he that is called Christ ): when he is come , he will declare unto us all things . 26Jesus saith unto her , I that speak unto thee am he .
Worship in Spirit and Truth
27And upon this came his disciples ; and they marvelled that he was speaking with a woman ; yet no man said , What seekest thou ? or , Why speakest thou with her ? 28So the woman left her waterpot , and went away into the city , and saith to the people , 29Come , see a man , who told me all things that ever I did : can this be the Christ ? 30They went out of the city , and were coming to him . 31In the mean while the disciples prayed him , saying , Rabbi , eat . 32But he said unto them , I have meat to eat that ye know not . 33The disciples therefore said one to another , Hath any man brought him aught to eat ? 34Jesus saith unto them , My meat is to do the will of him that sent me , and to accomplish his work . 35Say not ye , There are yet four months , and then cometh the harvest ? behold , I say unto you , Lift up your eyes , and look on the fields , that they are white already unto harvest . 36He that reapeth receiveth wages , and gathereth fruit unto life eternal; that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together . 37For herein is the saying true , One soweth , and another reapeth . 38I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored : others have labored , and ye are entered into their labor . 39And from that city many of the Samaritans believed on him because of the word of the woman , who testified , He told me all things that ever I did . 40So when the Samaritans came unto him , they besought him to abide with them : and he abode there two days . 41And many more believed because of his word ; 42and they said to the woman , Now we believe , not because of thy speaking : for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world .
The Disciples Return
43And after the two days he went forth from thence into Galilee . 44For Jesus himself testified , that a prophet hath no honor in his own country . 45So when he came into Galilee , the Galilæans received him , having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast : for they also went unto the feast . 46He came therefore again unto Cana of Galilee , where he made the water wine . And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum . 47When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judæa into Galilee , he went unto him , and besought him that he would come down , and heal his son ; for he was at the point of death. 48Jesus therefore said unto him , Except ye see signs and wonders , ye will in no wise believe . 49The nobleman saith unto him , Sir , come down ere my child die. 50Jesus saith unto him , Go thy way ; thy son liveth . The man believed the word that Jesus spake unto him , and he went his way . 51And as he was now going down , his servants met him , saying , that his son lived . 52So he inquired of them the hour when he began to amend . They said therefore unto him , Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him . 53So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said unto him , Thy son liveth : and himself believed , and his whole house . 54This is again the second sign that Jesus did , having come out of Judæa into Galilee .