JHN 4
4
Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
1 When Jesus became aware that the Pharisees had heard the report that Jesus was gaining and baptising more disciples than John was gaining
2 (although, in actual fact, Jesus Himself was not personally baptising anyone, but rather His disciples were performing the baptisms),
3 He departed from Judea and set out once more for the region of Galilee.
4 It was necessary for Him to pass through the territory of Samaria on His journey.
5 So He arrived at a city of Samaria called Sychar, located near the plot of ground that Jacob had given as an inheritance to his son Joseph centuries earlier.
6 Jacob's well was located there. Jesus, being weary from the journey He had made, sat down by the well in this manner. It was approximately the sixth hour, around noon.
7 A woman from Samaria came to the well to draw water for her daily needs. Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink of water."
8 (For His disciples had gone away into the city to purchase food supplies.)
9 The Samaritan woman responded to Him, "How is it that You, being a Jew, are asking me, a Samaritan woman, to give You water to drink?" (For Jews maintained no social association or dealings with Samaritans due to ethnic and religious hostilities.)
10 Jesus answered and said to her, "If you had known and understood the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him for living water, and He would have given it to you."
11 The woman said to Him, "Sir, You have no bucket or vessel to draw with, and the well is deep. From where then do You obtain that living water You speak of?
12 Surely You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock?"
13 Jesus responded and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this natural water will become thirsty again before long.
14 But whoever drinks of the water which I will give to him will never be thirsty for all eternity. Rather, the water which I will give to him will become within him a fountain of water springing up continuously to eternal life."
15 The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water You speak of, so that I will not be thirsty any longer nor need to come here repeatedly to draw water."
16 He said to her, "Go, call your husband and return here with him."
17 The woman responded and said to Him, "I do not have a husband." Jesus said to her, "You have spoken correctly and truthfully when you said, 'I do not have a husband,'
18 for you have had five husbands in succession, and the man whom you have now is not your husband in a legitimate marriage. This you have spoken in complete truth."
19 The woman said to Him, "Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet who speaks for God.
20 Our fathers, the Samaritans, worshiped on this mountain, Mount Gerizim, but You Jews assert that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary for people to worship."
21 Jesus said to her, "Believe Me and trust what I say, woman, that an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem exclusively.
22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know or fully understand. We Jews worship what we know, because salvation and deliverance originate from the Jews.
23 But the hour is coming, and has now arrived, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is indeed seeking such people as these to worship Him.
24 God is spirit in His essential nature, and it is necessary for those who worship Him to worship in spirit and truth."
25 The woman said to Him, "I know that Messiah is coming—the One who is called Christ, the Anointed One. When that One comes, He will declare and explain everything to us."
26 Jesus said to her, "I am He, the very One speaking to you at this moment."
27 At this precise point in the conversation, His disciples arrived back at the well and were amazed that He was engaged in conversation with a woman. However, no one dared to ask, "What are You seeking from her?" or "Why are You talking with her?"
28 Then the woman left her water jar behind at the well and went away into the city. She began saying to the people there,
29 "Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done in my life! Could this possibly be the Christ, the Messiah we have been expecting?"
30 They departed from the city and were making their way towards Him to investigate her claim.
31 During this interval of time, the disciples were urging Him repeatedly, saying, "Rabbi, eat some food."
32 But He said to them, "I have food to eat that you are not aware of and do not know about."
33 So the disciples began to say to one another in confusion, "No one brought Him anything to eat, did they? Has someone else provided food?"
34 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of the One who sent Me and to bring His work to full completion.
35 Do you not have a saying among yourselves, 'There are still four months remaining, and then the harvest season comes'? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields before you, for they are already white and ready for harvest at this very moment.
36 The one who reaps the harvest receives wages as compensation and gathers fruit that results in eternal life, so that the one who sows the seed and the one who reaps the harvest may rejoice together in celebration.
37 For in this situation, the proverbial saying is demonstrated to be true: 'One person sows the seed, while another person reaps the harvest.'
38 I sent you out to reap what you have not worked for or laboured over. Others have worked hard and laboured, and you have entered into the benefit of their work."
39 Many of the Samaritans from that city placed their faith and believed in Him because of the word and testimony of the woman who testified, "He told me everything which I have ever done."
40 When, therefore, the Samaritans came out to meet Him, they began to urge Him insistently to stay with them in their town. And He stayed there for two full days.
41 Many more people believed in Him on account of His own word and teaching.
42 They were saying to the woman, "No longer is it because of what you told us that we believe, for we ourselves have heard Him speak, and we know with certainty that this man is truly the Saviour of the world."
43 After the two days had elapsed, He departed from that place and travelled into the region of Galilee.
44 (For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honour or respect in his own native town.)
45 So when He arrived in Galilee, the Galileans received Him warmly, having witnessed everything He had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For they themselves had also travelled to the feast and observed His works.
Jesus Heals the Royal Officer's Child
Mt. 8:5-13; Lk. 7:1-10
46 So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, the place where He had transformed the water into wine. In Capernaum, there was a certain royal officer, a man in the service of King Herod, whose son was gravely ill.
47 Upon hearing the report that Jesus had travelled from Judea into Galilee, this man went to Him and began to plead earnestly that He come down from Cana to Capernaum and heal his son, for the child was about to die.
48 Jesus, therefore, said to him, "Unless you people see miraculous signs and wonders with your own eyes, you will never believe and place your trust in Me!"
49 The royal officer said to Him urgently, "Sir, come down quickly before my child dies!"
50 Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your son will live and recover." The man believed and trusted the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he took his leave and departed.
51 As he was travelling down the road towards home, his servants met him along the way, bringing him the news and saying with joy that his child was living and recovering.
52 Then he inquired from them the exact hour at which his son had gotten better and begun to recover. They said to him, "Yesterday, at the seventh hour of the day, around one o'clock in the afternoon, the fever departed from him."
53 Then the father realised that it was at that same precise hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son lives and will recover." And he himself believed and placed his faith in Jesus, along with his entire household and family.
54 Now this was the second miraculous sign that Jesus performed following His arrival from Judea into the region of Galilee.
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Copyright © 2026 Michael Adeyemi Adegbola. This Scripture text is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0).
