Jesus and the Samaritan Woman

1Therefore when Jesus† knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus† makes and baptizes more disciples than John— 2although indeed Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples— 3He left Judea and went away again† into Galilee.

4And it was necessary for Him to pass through Samaria. 5Therefore He comes to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6And Jacob’s well was there. Therefore Jesus, wearied from the journey, thus was sitting at the well. The hour was about the sixth.†

7A woman out of Samaria comes to draw water. Jesus says to her, “Give to Me to drink.” 8For His disciples had gone away into the city, that they might buy food.

9Therefore the Samaritan woman says to Him, “How do You, being a Jew, ask to drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?” For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.†

10Jesus answered and said to her, “If you had known the gift of God and who it is saying to you, ‘Give to Me to drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given to you living water.”

11The woman says to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; from where, then, do You have the living water? 12Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank out of it himself, and his sons and his livestock?”

13Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone drinking of this water will thirst again; 14but whoever may drink of the water that I will give him will never thirst to the age. Rather, the water that I will give to him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

15The woman says to Him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I might not thirst nor come here to draw.”

16He says to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.”

17The woman answered and said to Him, “I do not have a husband.”

Jesus says to her, “You have spoken correctly, ‘I do not have a husband.’ 18For you have had five husbands, and the one whom you have now is not your husband; this you have said truly.”

19The woman says to Him, “Sir, I see that You are a prophet. 20Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you⁺† say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary to worship.”

21Jesus says to her, “Believe Me, woman, that an hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you⁺ worship the Father. 22You⁺ worship what you⁺ do not know; we worship what we know, because salvation is of the Jews. 23But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father also seeks such who worship Him. 24God is Spirit, and it is necessary for those worshiping Him to worship in spirit and truth.”

25The woman says to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming, who is called Christ; when He comes, He will declare to us all things.”

26Jesus says to her, “I am He—the One speaking to you.”

The Disciples Return and Marvel

27And upon this His disciples came and marveled that He was speaking with a woman. No one, however, said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why do You speak with her?”

28Then the woman left her water jar and went away into the city, and she says to the men, 29“Come, see a man who told me all things, as many as I did. Could this be the Christ?” 30They went out of the city and were coming to Him.

31In the meantime the disciples were asking Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

32But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you⁺ do not know.”

33Therefore the disciples were saying to one another, “Did anyone bring Him something to eat?”

34Jesus says to them, “My food is that I should do the will of the One having sent Me and should finish His work. 35Do you⁺ not say, ‘It is yet† four months and the harvest comes’? Behold, I say to you⁺, lift up your⁺ eyes and look at the fields, because they are white† to harvest already.

36The one reaping receives a wage and gathers fruit unto eternal life, so that† the one sowing and the one reaping may rejoice together. 37For in this the word is true, that is, ‘One is sowing and another is reaping.’ 38I sent you⁺ to reap what you⁺ have not labored for; others have labored, and you⁺ have entered into their labor.”

Many Samaritans Believe

39And out of that city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman testifying, “He told me all things that I did.” 40Therefore when the Samaritans came to Him, they were asking Him to stay with them, and He stayed there two days.

41And many more believed because of His word. 42And they were saying to the woman, “No longer because of your speech do we believe; for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world.†”

Jesus Heals the Official’s Son
(Matthew 8:5–13; Luke 7:1–10)

43And after the two days He went out from there† into Galilee. 44For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet in the own hometown does not have honor. 45Therefore when He came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him, having seen how great were all things He did in Jerusalem during the feast; for they themselves also went to the feast.

46He came,† therefore, again to Cana of Galilee, where He made the water wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son was sick in Capernaum. 47This one, having heard that Jesus is come out of Judea into Galilee, went to Him and was asking that He might come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

48Therefore Jesus said to him, “Unless you⁺ see signs and wonders, you⁺ will never believe.”

49The royal official says to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

50Jesus says to him. “Go; your son lives.”

The man believed the word that Jesus said to him, and he was going. 51And already, in his going down, his servants met him, saying that his boy lives.†

52Therefore he inquired from them the hour in which he got better. Therefore they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour† the fever left him.”

53Therefore the father knew that it was in that hour at which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” And he himself believed, and his whole household.

54Now this was again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.

Footnotes:

1 RP and TR when the Lord
1 Or When Jesus realized that the Pharisees were aware; NE, WH, BYZ, and TR Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus
3 BYZ and TR went away
6 That is, about noon
9 Tischendorf does not include this sentence.
20 Or You Jews; the Greek word for you is plural; also in verse 48.
35 F35 does not include yet.
35 Or ripe
36 BYZ and TR include both.
42 BYZ and TR include the Christ.
43 BYZ and TR include and went
46 BYZ and TR Jesus came
51 BYZ and TR your boy lives
52 That is, one in the afternoon