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It was about the sixth hour.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <A name="8"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, <span class="red">“Give Me a drink.”</span> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) <A name="10"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“You are a Jew,” said the woman. “How can You ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> <A name="11"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Jesus answered, <span class="red">“If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”</span> <A name="12"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“Sir,” the woman replied, “You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then will You get this living water? <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock?” <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Jesus said to her, <span class="red">“Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”</span> <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><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 get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.” <A name="17"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Jesus told her, <span class="red">“Go, call your husband and come back.”</span> <A name="18"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“I have no husband,” the woman replied. <p class="reg"> Jesus said to her, <span class="red">“You are correct to say that you have no husband. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>In fact, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. You have spoken truthfully.”</span> <A name="20"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“Sir,” the woman said, “I see that You are a prophet. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.” <A name="22"></a><p class="reg"><span class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“Believe Me, woman,”</span> Jesus replied, <span class="red">“a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”</span> <A name="26"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When He comes, He will explain everything to us.” <A name="27"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Jesus answered, <span class="red">“I who speak to you am He.”</span> <A name="28"></a><p class="hdg">The Disciples Return and Marvel<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Just then His disciples returned and were surprised that He was speaking with a woman. But no one asked Him, “What do You want from her?” or “Why are You talking with her?” <A name="29"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Then the woman left her water jar, went back into the town, and said to the people, <A name="30"></a><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. Could this be the Christ?” <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>So they left the town and made their way toward Jesus. <A name="32"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Meanwhile the disciples urged Him, “Rabbi, eat something.” <A name="33"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>But He told them, <span class="red">“I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”</span> <A name="34"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>So the disciples asked one another, “Could someone have brought Him food?” <A name="35"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>Jesus explained, <span class="red">“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work. <A name="36"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> for harvest.</span> <A name="37"></a><p class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together. <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>For in this case the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the hard work, and now you have taken up their labor.” <A name="40"></a><p class="hdg">Many Samaritans Believe<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.” <A name="41"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>So when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed two days. <A name="42"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>And many more believed because of His message. <A name="43"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>They said to the woman, “We now believe not only because of your words; we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man truly is the Savior of the world.” <A name="44"></a><p class="hdg">Jesus Heals the Official’s Son<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../matthew/8.htm#5">Matthew 8:5–13</a>; <a href ="../luke/7.htm">Luke 7:1–10</a>)</span><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>After two days, Jesus left for Galilee. <A name="45"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>Now He Himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown. <A name="46"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>Yet when He arrived, the Galileans welcomed Him. They had seen all the great things He had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they had gone there as well. <A name="47"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>So once again He came to Cana in Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. <A name="48"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged Him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die. <A name="49"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>Jesus said to him, <span class="red">“Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe.”</span> <A name="50"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>“Sir,” the official said, “come down before my child dies.” <A name="51"></a><p class="reg"><span class="red"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>“Go,”</span> said Jesus. <span class="red">“Your son will live.”</span> <p class="reg"> The man took Jesus at His word and departed. <A name="52"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span>And while he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was alive. <A name="53"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-52.htm"><b>52</b></a></span>So he inquired as to the hour when his son had recovered, and they told him, “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">e</a></span>” <A name="54"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-53.htm"><b>53</b></a></span>Then the father realized that this was the very hour in which Jesus had told him, <span class="red">“Your son will live.”</span> And he and all his household believed. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/4-54.htm"><b>54</b></a></span>This was now the second sign that Jesus performed after coming from Judea into Galilee.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">1</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Literally <i>When therefore Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus</i><span class="thin"> </span>; NE, WH, BYZ, and TR <i>When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">6</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> That is, about noon<br><span class="fnverse">9</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Tischendorf does not include this sentence.<br><span class="fnverse">35</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Literally <i>white</i><span class="thin"> </span><br><span class="fnverse">52</span> <span class="footnotesbot">e</span> That is, one in the afternoon<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Berean Bible (<a href=http://berean.bible>www.Berean.Bible</a>) <a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Study Bible (BSB)</a> © 2016, 2020 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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