Joh 4 | NASB1995 | STEP | Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

bl Dan 4:2f; 6:27; Matt 24:24; Mark 13:22; Acts 2:19, 22, 43; 4:30; 5:12; 6:8; 7:36; 14:3; 15:12; Rom 15:19; 1 Cor 1:22; 2 Cor 12:12; 2 Thess 2:9; Heb 2:4

bm Dan 4:2f; 6:27; Matt 24:24; Mark 13:22; Acts 2:19, 22, 43; 4:30; 5:12; 6:8; 7:36; 14:3; 15:12; Rom 15:19; 1 Cor 1:22; 2 Cor 12:12; 2 Thess 2:9; Heb 2:4

bo Matt 8:13

br Acts 11:14

bs John 2:11

bu John 4:45f

John 4

Jesus Goes to Galilee

1 Therefore when ^athe Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and ^bbaptizing more disciples than John 2 (although ^cJesus Himself was not baptizing, but His ^ddisciples were), 3 He left ^eJudea and went away ^fagain into Galilee. 4 And He had to pass through ^gSamaria. 5 So He came to a city of ^hSamaria called Sychar, near ⁱthe parcel of ground that ^jJacob gave to his son Joseph; 6 and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, being wearied from His journey, was sitting thus by the well. It was about ^{▼▼ Perhaps 6 p.m. Roman time or noon Jewish time}the sixth hour.

The Woman of Samaria

7 There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 8 For His ^ldisciples had gone away into ^mthe city to buy food. 9 Therefore the ⁿSamaritan woman said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?” (For ^oJews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you ^pliving water.” 11 She said to Him, ^{▼▼ Or Lord}“Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; where then do You get that ^rliving water? 12 “You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who ^sgave us the well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle?” 13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him ^tshall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to ^ueternal life.”

15 The woman said to Him, ^{▼▼ Or Lord}“Sir, ^wgive me this water, so I will not be thirsty nor come all the way here to draw.” 16 He said to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.” 17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly.” 19 The woman said to Him, ^{▼▼ Or Lord}“Sir, I perceive that You are ^ya prophet. 20 ^z“Our fathers worshiped in ^aathis mountain, and you people say that ^abin Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, ^acan hour is coming when ^adneither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22 ^ae“You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for ^afsalvation is from the Jews. 23 “But ^agan hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father ^ahin spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. 24 “God is ^{▼▼ Or Spirit}spirit, and those who worship Him must worship ^ajin spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to Him, “I know that ^akMessiah is coming ( ^alHe who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us.” 26 Jesus said to her, ^am“I who speak to you am He.”

27 At this point His ^andisciples 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?” 28 So the woman left her waterpot, and went into the city and said to the men, 29 “Come, see a man ^aowho told me all the things that I have done; ^apthis is not ^{▼▼ I.e. the Messiah}the Christ, is it?” 30 They went out of the city, and were coming to Him.

31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, saying, ^ar“Rabbi, eat.” 32 But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33 So the ^asdisciples were saying to one another, “No one brought Him anything to eat, did he?” 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to ^atdo the will of Him who sent Me and to ^auaccomplish His work. 35 “Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white ^avfor harvest. 36 “Already he who reaps is receiving ^awwages and is gathering ^axfruit for ^aylife eternal; so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37 “For in this case the saying is true, ‘ ^azOne sows and another reaps.’ 38 “I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”

The Samaritans

39 From ^bathat city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, ^bb“He told me all the things that I have done.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they were asking Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. 41 Many more believed because of His word; 42 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 ^bcthe Savior of the world.”

43 After ^bdthe two days He went forth from there into Galilee. 44 For Jesus Himself testified that ^bea prophet has no honor in his own country. 45 So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, ^bfhaving seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves also went to the feast.

Healing a Nobleman’s Son

46 Therefore He came again to ^bgCana of Galilee ^bhwhere He had made the water wine. And there was a royal official whose son was sick at ^biCapernaum. 47 When he heard that Jesus had come ^bjout of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and was imploring Him to come down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death. 48 So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see ^{▼▼ Or attesting miracles
,} ^blsigns and ^bmwonders, you simply will not believe.” 49 The royal official said to Him, ^{▼▼ Or Lord}“Sir, come down before my child dies.” 50 Jesus said to him, ^bo“Go; your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started off. 51 As he was now going down, his slaves met him, saying that his ^{▼▼ Or boy}son was living. 52 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. Then they said to him, “Yesterday at the ^{▼▼ Perhaps 7 p.m. Roman time or 1 p.m. Jewish time}seventh hour the fever left him.” 53 So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives”; and he himself believed and ^brhis whole household. 54 This is again a ^bssecond ^{▼▼ Or attesting miracle}sign that Jesus performed when He had ^bucome out of Judea into Galilee.