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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>John 4 NET Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader-revcatch.js'></script><script id='HyDgbd_1s' src='https://prebidads.revcatch.com/ads.js' type='text/javascript' async></script><script>(function(w,d,b,s,i){var cts=d.createElement(s);cts.async=true;cts.id='catchscript'; cts.dataset.appid=i;cts.src='https://app.protectsubrev.com/catch_rp.js?cb='+Math.random(); document.head.appendChild(cts); }) (window,document,'head','script','rc-anksrH');</script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/john/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/john/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NET Bible</a> > John 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/3.htm" title="John 3">◄</a> John 4 <a href="../john/5.htm" title="John 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NET Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/net/esv/john/4.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="title">Departure From Judea</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was winning and baptizing more disciples than John <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>(although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were), <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>he left Judea and set out once more for Galilee.</p> <p class="title">Conversation With a Samaritan Woman</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>But he had to pass through Samaria. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Now he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me some water to drink.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>(For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies.) <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you – a Jew – ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water to drink?” (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Jesus answered her, “If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you, ‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“Sir,” the woman said to him, “you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water? <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Surely you’re not greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Jesus replied, “Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty again. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>He said to her, “Go call your husband and come back here.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The woman replied, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “Right you are when you said, ‘I have no husband,’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!”</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But a time is coming – and now is here – when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>God is spirit, and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (the one called Christ); “whenever he comes, he will tell us everything.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Jesus said to her, “I, the one speaking to you, am he.”</p> <p class="title">The Disciples Return</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Now at that very moment his disciples came back. They were shocked because he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, “What do you want?” or “Why are you speaking with her?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people, <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can’t be the Messiah, can he?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>So they left the town and began coming to him.</p> <p class="title">Workers for the Harvest</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, eat something.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>So the disciples began to say to one another, “No one brought him anything to eat, did they?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Don’t you say, ‘There are four more months and then comes the harvest?’ I tell you, look up and see that the fields are already white for harvest! <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>The one who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>For in this instance the saying is true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”</p> <p class="title">The Samaritans Respond</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified, “He told me everything I ever did.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them. He stayed there two days, <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>and because of his word many more believed. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>They said to the woman, “No longer do we believe because of your words, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this one really is the Savior of the world.”</p> <p class="title">Onward to Galilee</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>After the two days he departed from there to Galilee. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had gone to the feast).</p> <p class="title">Healing the Royal Official’s Son</p><p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>Now he came again to Cana in Galilee where he had made the water wine. In Capernaum there was a certain royal official whose son was sick. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders you will never believe!” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>“Sir,” the official said to him, “come down before my child dies.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>Jesus told him, “Go home; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and set off for home.</p> <p class="bodytext"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span>While he was on his way down, his slaves met him and told him that his son was going to live. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-52.htm"><b>52</b></a></span>So he asked them the time when his condition began to improve, and they told him, “Yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoon the fever left him.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-53.htm"><b>53</b></a></span>Then the father realized that it was the very time Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live,” and he himself believed along with his entire household. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-54.htm"><b>54</b></a></span>Jesus did this as his second miraculous sign when he returned from Judea to Galilee.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href="http://netbible.com/">NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. http://netbible.com.<br />Used by permission. 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