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we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>The woman said to Him, I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>Jesus said to her, I who speak to you am <i>He.</i> <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>At this point His disciples came, and they were amazed that He had been speaking with a woman, yet no one said, What do You seek? or, Why do You speak with her? <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>So the woman left her waterpot, and went into the city and said to the men, <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>Come, see a man who told me all the things that I <i>have</i> done; this is not the Christ, is it? <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>They went out of the city, and were coming to Him. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, saying, Rabbi, eat. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>But He said to them, I have food to eat that you do not know about. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>So the disciples were saying to one another, No one brought Him <i>anything</i> to eat, did he? <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-34.htm" target="_top"><b>34</b></a></span>Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-35.htm" target="_top"><b>35</b></a></span>Do you not say, There are yet four months, and <i>then</i> comes the harvest? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-36.htm" target="_top"><b>36</b></a></span>Already he who reaps is receiving wages and is gathering fruit for life eternal; so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-37.htm" target="_top"><b>37</b></a></span>For in this <i>case</i> the saying is true, One sows and another reaps. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-38.htm" target="_top"><b>38</b></a></span>I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>The Samaritans</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-39.htm" target="_top"><b>39</b></a></span>From that city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, He told me all the things that I <i>have</i> done. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-40.htm" target="_top"><b>40</b></a></span>So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they were asking Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-41.htm" target="_top"><b>41</b></a></span>Many more believed because of His word; <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-42.htm" target="_top"><b>42</b></a></span>and they were saying to the woman, It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One is indeed the Savior of the world. <p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-43.htm" target="_top"><b>43</b></a></span>After the two days He went forth from there into Galilee. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-44.htm" target="_top"><b>44</b></a></span>For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-45.htm" target="_top"><b>45</b></a></span>So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves also went to the feast. <p><font color="#000000"><b><i>Healing a Noblemans Son</i></b></font><p>      <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-46.htm" target="_top"><b>46</b></a></span>Therefore He came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water wine. And there was a royal official whose son was sick at Capernaum. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-47.htm" target="_top"><b>47</b></a></span>When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and was imploring <i>Him</i> to come down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-48.htm" target="_top"><b>48</b></a></span>So Jesus said to him, Unless you <i>people</i> see signs and wonders, you <i>simply</i> will not believe. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-49.htm" target="_top"><b>49</b></a></span>The royal official said to Him, Sir, come down before my child dies. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-50.htm" target="_top"><b>50</b></a></span>Jesus said to him, Go; your son lives. The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started off. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-51.htm" target="_top"><b>51</b></a></span>As he was now going down, <i>his</i> slaves met him, saying that his son was living. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-52.htm" target="_top"><b>52</b></a></span>So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. Then they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-53.htm" target="_top"><b>53</b></a></span>So the father knew that <i>it was</i> at that hour in which Jesus said to him, Your son lives; and he himself believed and his whole household. <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-54.htm" target="_top"><b>54</b></a></span>This is again a second sign that Jesus performed when He had come out of Judea into Galilee. <p><br /><br /><a href="//www.lockman.org" target="_top">NASB ©1995</a><div class="vheading2">Parallel Verses</div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/john/4.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/john/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe me, that the hour cometh, when you shall neither on this mountain, not in Jerusalem, adore the Father. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/dbt/john/4.htm">Darby Bible Translation</a></span><br />Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when ye shall neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem worship the Father.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/john/4.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/john/4.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Jesus saith to her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/john/4.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />"Believe me," said Jesus, "the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/john/4.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/john/4.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Jesus saith to her, 'Woman, believe me, that there doth come an hour, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father;<div class="vheading2">Library</div><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/august_23_morning.htm">August 23 Morning</a><br></span><span class="snippet">I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.--JER. 31:3. We are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.--God . . . hath saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/august_23_morning.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/september_18_evening.htm">September 18 Evening</a><br></span><span class="snippet">En-hakkore. (Or, The well of him that cried.)--JUDG. 15:19. If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith unto thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.--If any man thirst, let him come unto me and drink. This spake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him should receive. Prove me now herewith, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/september_18_evening.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/september_29_morning.htm">September 29 Morning</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us.--I JOHN 3:16. The love of Christ, which passeth knowledge.--Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.--Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.--Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/september_29_morning.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/may_24_morning.htm">May 24 Morning</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.--EPH. 4:30. The love of the Spirit.--The Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost.--In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old. But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them. Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/may_24_morning.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/september_16_morning.htm">September 16 Morning</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The Lord pondereth the hearts.--PROV. 21:2. The Lord knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.--The Lord will shew who are his, and who is holy.--Thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly. Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.--There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear. Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/september_16_morning.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/february_1_morning.htm">February 1 Morning</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Whom having not seen, ye love.--I PET. 1:8. We walk by faith, not by sight.--We love him, because he first loved us.--And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.--In whom ye trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise.--God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/february_1_morning.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/march_1_morning.htm">March 1 Morning</a><br></span><span class="snippet">The fruit of the Spirit is love.--GAL. 5:22. God is love: and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.--The love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.--Unto you . . . which believe he is precious.--We love him, because he first loved us.--The love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: and that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/march_1_morning.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/april_17_evening.htm">April 17 Evening</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Draw me, we will run after thee.--SONG 1:4. I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.--I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love.--I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.--Behold the Lamb of God.--As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/april_17_evening.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/june_6_morning.htm">June 6 Morning</a><br></span><span class="snippet">He will rest in his love.--ZEPH. 3:17. The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people: but because the Lord loved you.--We love him, because he first loved us.--You . . . hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/june_6_morning.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/july_5_morning.htm">July 5 Morning</a><br></span><span class="snippet">We have known and believed the love that God hath to us.--I JOHN 4:16. God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: that in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/july_5_morning.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><span class="headingtext"><a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/november_22_morning.htm">November 22 Morning</a><br></span><span class="snippet">Praying in the Holy Ghost.--JUDE 20. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.--We . . . have access by one Spirit unto the Father. O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. The Spirit . . . helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth <a href="//christianbookshelf.org/anonymous/daily_light_on_the_daily_path/november_22_morning.htm" title="continued">…</a><br></span><span class="citation">Anonymous—</span><span class="citation2">Daily Light on the Daily Path</span><p><div class="vheading2">Links</div><a href="/niv/john/4-21.htm">John 4:21 NIV</a> • <a href="/nlt/john/4-21.htm">John 4:21 NLT</a> • <a href="/esv/john/4-21.htm">John 4:21 ESV</a> • <a href="/nasb/john/4-21.htm">John 4:21 NASB</a> • <a href="/kjv/john/4-21.htm">John 4:21 KJV</a> • <a href="//bibleapps.com/john/4-21.htm">John 4:21 Bible Apps</a> • <a href="/john/4-21.htm">John 4:21 Parallel</a> • <a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../john/4-20.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="John 4:20"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="John 4:20" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../john/4-22.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="John 4:22"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="John 4:22" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mp/john/4-21.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframebhbl.htm" width="122" height="250" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div id="bot"><div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /></div><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhparnew.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></body></html>