Chapter 4                         

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<		 4:1 When Jesus knew, then, that the Pharisees had heard that He made and immersed more disciples than John, 2 (Jesus Himself was not immersing people in water, however, but only His disciples), 3 He left Judea and went away again into Galilee. 4 To do so, it was necessary for him to pass through Samaria. 5 He then came into a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the property that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was also there. Since Jesus was worn out from the journey, He sat down at the well. It was about the sixth hour.

7 A woman came out from Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me to drink,” 8 for his disciples had gone into the city to buy food. 9 Then the Samaritan woman said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Judean, ask me for a drink, since I am a woman and a Samaritan?” Indeed, Judeans did not associate with Samaritans. 10 Jesus answered her, “If you had known the gift of God, and who is asking you, ‘Give me to drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; from where, then, would you get living water? 12 You are not greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well and drank of it himself with his sons and his livestock?” 13 Jesus answered her, “Everyone drinking of this water will thirst again. • 14 Whoever drinks out from the water that I will give him, however, will never thirst in this age, but the water that I will give him will become inside of him a spring of water bubbling up into age-unfolding life. [k]” 15 The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I might never thirst again, nor come here to draw water.”

16 He said to her, “Go, call your husband and return here.” 17 The woman answered him, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have spoken rightly when you said that you do not have a husband. 18 For you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband; this you have truly spoken.” 19 The woman said to Him, “Sir, I see that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, yet you say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary to worship.

21 Jesus said to her, “Believe Me, ma’am, that the hour is coming when you will worship the Father, neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know; for salvation is out from the Judeans. • 23 But the hour is coming and now is, when the true worshipers will worship [kiss] the Father inside of Spirit and truth; indeed, the Father also searches with great desire for such to worship Him. • 24 God is Spirit, and it is necessary that those worshipping Him, should worship [kiss] inside of Spirit and truth. 25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming, who is called Christ; when He comes, He will tell us everything.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I am the One speaking to you.”

27 At that moment His disciples came and were astonished that He was speaking with a woman. No one said, however, “What do you seek?” Or, “Why do you speak with her?” 28 The woman then left her water pot, went back into the city, and said to the people there, 23 “Come, see a man who told me everything I have done. Can it be that this is the Christ?” 30 They went out from the city and came towards Jesus.

31 In the meantime, the disciples were urging Him, “Teacher, eat.” 32 But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know.” 33 For that reason, the disciples said to one another, “Did someone bring Him something to eat?” • 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the desire of the One who sent Me, and to complete His work. 35 Do you not say that it is yet four months before the harvest comes? Look and see! I say to you, lift up your eyes and see the fields, for they are white for harvest already. • 36 The one who reaps receives his wages, and gathers together fruit into age-unfolding life. Then the one who sows will rejoice together with the one who reaps. 37 Indeed, the saying is true, “one is sowing and another reaping.” 38 I sent you to reap what you did not toil for; others have toiled, and you have entered into their labor.”

39 Many of the Samaritans from that city then believed into Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me everything I ever did.” 40 Then, when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked him to remain with them, and He stayed there for two days. 41 Then many more believed through His word. 42 They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of your speech that we believe; we ourselves have indeed heard, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world-cosmos.

43 Then, after two days, He went out from there into Galilee. 44 Jesus Himself had testified that a prophet does not have honor in his own hometown. 45 But when He came into Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen all the great things He had done in Jerusalem during the feast; for they had also gone to the feast.

46 Then Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee where He had made the water into wine, where there was a certain royal official, whose son was sick in Capernaum. 47 Because he had heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and asked Him to come and heal his son; for he was about to die. 48 Jesus then said to him, “If you do not see signs and wonders, will you not believe?” 49 The royal official said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” 50 Jesus said to him, “Go, your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus said and went away.

51 His servants were then already coming to meet him and said, “Your son lives.” 52 He asked them what hour it was that he had become better. They said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” 53 The father then realized that it was that very hour in which Jesus had said to him, “Your son lives.” And he believed, with his entire household. 54 This was again the second sign that Jesus did, after coming out from Judea into Galilee.
 		  
 
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