John 4:1 (ASV)
When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

John 4:2 (ASV)
(although Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples),

John 4:3 (ASV)
he left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.

John 4:4 (ASV)
And he must needs pass through Samaria.

John 4:5 (ASV)
So he cometh to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph:

John 4:6 (ASV)
and Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

John 4:7 (ASV)
There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

John 4:8 (ASV)
For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food.

John 4:9 (ASV)
The Samaritan woman therefore saith unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a Samaritan woman? (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

John 4:10 (ASV)
Jesus answered and said unto unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

John 4:11 (ASV)
The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then hast thou that living water?

John 4:12 (ASV)
Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle?

John 4:13 (ASV)
Jesus answered and said unto her, Every one that drinketh of this water shall thirst again:

John 4:14 (ASV)
but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life.

John 4:15 (ASV)
The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come all the way hither to draw.

John 4:16 (ASV)
Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

John 4:17 (ASV)
The woman answered and said unto him, I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her, Thou saidst well, I have no husband:

John 4:18 (ASV)
for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: this hast thou said truly.

John 4:19 (ASV)
The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

John 4:20 (ASV)
Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

John 4:21 (ASV)
Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father.

John 4:22 (ASV)
Ye worship that which ye know not: we worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

John 4:23 (ASV)
But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek to be his worshippers.

John 4:24 (ASV)
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

John 4:25 (ASV)
The woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah cometh (he that is called Christ): when he is come, he will declare unto us all things.

John 4:26 (ASV)
Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am `he'.

John 4:27 (ASV)
And upon this came his disciples; and they marvelled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her?

John 4:28 (ASV)
So the woman left her waterpot, and went away into the city, and saith to the people,

John 4:29 (ASV)
Come, see a man, who told me all things that `ever' I did: can this be the Christ?

John 4:30 (ASV)
They went out of the city, and were coming to him.

John 4:31 (ASV)
In the mean while the disciples prayed him, saying, Rabbi, eat.

John 4:32 (ASV)
But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not.

John 4:33 (ASV)
The disciples therefore said one to another, Hath any man brought him `aught' to eat?

John 4:34 (ASV)
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.

John 4:35 (ASV)
Say not ye, There are yet four months, and `then' cometh the harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are white already unto harvest.

John 4:36 (ASV)
He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal; that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

John 4:37 (ASV)
For herein is the saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.

John 4:38 (ASV)
I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored: others have labored, and ye are entered into their labor.

John 4:39 (ASV)
And from that city many of the Samaritans believed on him because of the word of the woman, who testified, He told me all things that `ever' I did.

John 4:40 (ASV)
So when the Samaritans came unto him, they besought him to abide with them: and he abode there two days.

John 4:41 (ASV)
And many more believed because of his word;

John 4:42 (ASV)
and they said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy speaking: for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.

John 4:43 (ASV)
And after the two days he went forth from thence into Galilee.

John 4:44 (ASV)
For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honor in his own country.

John 4:45 (ASV)
So when he came into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.

John 4:46 (ASV)
He came therefore again unto Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.

John 4:47 (ASV)
When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought `him' that he would come down, and heal his son; for he was at the point of death.

John 4:48 (ASV)
Jesus therefore said unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will in no wise believe.

John 4:49 (ASV)
The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.

John 4:50 (ASV)
Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. The man believed the word that Jesus spake unto him, and he went his way.

John 4:51 (ASV)
And as he was now going down, his servants met him, saying, that his son lived.

John 4:52 (ASV)
So he inquired of them the hour when he began to amend. They said therefore unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

John 4:53 (ASV)
So the father knew that `it was' at that hour in which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house.

John 4:54 (ASV)
This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judaea into Galilee.
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