John - Chapter 4

Passage

When Jesus therefore learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (Though Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples), He left Judea and went again into Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. He came therefore to a city of Samaria which is called Sichar, near the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her: Give me a drink. For his disciples had gone into the city to buy food. Then that Samaritan woman said to him: How is it that you, being a Jew, ask a drink of me, who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. Jesus answered and said to her: If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that says to you: Give me a drink; you perhaps would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water. The woman said to him: Sir, you have nothing with which to draw, and the well is deep. Where then do you get living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it, himself and his children and his cattle? Jesus answered and said to her: Whoever drinks of this water shall thirst again: but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall not thirst for ever. But the water that I will give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting. The woman said to him: Sir, give me this water, so that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw. Jesus said to her: Go, call your husband, and come here. The woman answered and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: You have said well: I have no husband. For you have had five husbands: and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly. The woman said to him: Sir, I see that you are a prophet. Our fathers adored on this mountain: and you say that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore. Jesus said to her: Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you shall adore the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You adore what you do not know: we adore what we know. For salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeks such to adore him. God is a spirit: and those who adore him must adore him in spirit and in truth. The woman said to him: I know that the Messias is coming (who is called Christ): therefore, when he comes, he will tell us all things. Jesus said to her: I am he, who am speaking with you. And at that moment his disciples came. And they wondered that he was talking with the woman. Yet no one said: What do you seek? Or: Why do you talk with her? The woman therefore left her water jar and went her way into the city and said to the men there: Come and see a man who has told me all the things I have done. Is not he the Christ? They went out of the city therefore and came to him. In the meantime, the disciples urged him, saying: Rabbi, eat. But he said to them: I have food to eat which you do not know. The disciples therefore said to one another: Has anyone brought him something to eat? Jesus said to them: My food is to do the will of him who sent me, so that I may finish his work. Do you not say: There are still four months, and then the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields. For they are already white for harvest. And he who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for life everlasting: so that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. For in this the saying is true: One man sows, and another reaps. I have sent you to reap what you did not labor for. Others have labored: and you have entered into their labors. Now many of the Samaritans of that city believed in him because of the word of the woman giving testimony: He told me all the things I have done. So when the Samaritans had come to him, they asked him to stay there. And he stayed there two days. And many more believed in him because of his own word. And they said to the woman: We now believe, not because of what you said: for we ourselves have heard him and know that this is indeed the Savior of the world. Now after two days, he departed from there and went into Galilee. For Jesus himself gave testimony that a prophet has no honor in his own country. And when he had come into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem on the festival day: for they also had gone to the festival day. He came again therefore into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain official whose son was sick at Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and heal his son: for he was at the point of death. Jesus therefore said to him: Unless you see signs and wonders, you do not believe. The official said to him: Lord, come down before my son dies. Jesus said to him: Go your way. Your son lives. The man believed the word which Jesus said to him and went his way. And as he was going down, his servants met him: and they brought word, saying that his son was alive. He asked them therefore the hour at which he grew better. And they said to him: Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. The father therefore knew that it was at the same hour that Jesus said to him: Your son lives. And he himself believed, and his whole household. This again was the second miracle that Jesus did, when he had come out of Judea into Galilee.