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          DASV: John 4    

1 Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was
making and baptizing more disciples than John
2 (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples),
3 he left Judea, and set out to return to Galilee.
4 But he had to pass through Samaria.
5 He came to a town in Samaria, called Sychar, near the field
that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
6 Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his
journey, sat there by the well. It was about noon.
7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her,
"Give me a drink,"
8 for his disciples had gone into town to buy food.
9 The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, being
a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (For the
Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
10 Jesus replied, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is
saying to you, 'Give me a 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. Where then can you get this living water from?
12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well,
and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his cattle?"
13 Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks from this water
will become thirsty again,
14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will
never thirst; but the water that I will give will become in
him a well of water springing up to eternal life."
15 The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I
will never be thirsty and will not have to come all the way
here to draw water."

16 Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come back here."
17 The woman replied, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her,
"You are right when you answered, 'I have no husband,'
18 for you have had five husbands; and the one whom you are
living with now is not your husband. In this you have
spoken correctly."
19 The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a
prophet.
20 Our fathers worshipped on this mountain; but you Jews say
that Jerusalem is the place where people must worship."
21 Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming
when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain
nor in Jerusalem.
22 You people worship what you do not know; we worship what
we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers
will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father
seeks such to be his worshippers.
24 God is a Spirit, and those who worship him must worship
in spirit and truth."
25 The woman said to him, "I know that the Messiah is coming
(who is called Christ); when he comes, he will explain
everything to us."
26 Jesus said to her, "I, the one talking to you, am he."

27 Just then his disciples came and they were amazed that he
was talking with a woman; yet no one said, "What do you want?"
or, "Why are you talking with her?"
28 Then the woman left her water jug, and went away into the
town. She told the people,
29 "Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. This
one can't be the Messiah, can he?"
30 They left the town and were coming to him.
31 In the meanwhile the disciples urged him, "Rabbi, eat."
32 But he replied, "I have food to eat that you don't know
about."
33 The disciples therefore said to each other, "No one has
brought him anything to eat, have they?"
34 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who
sent me, and to complete his work.
35 Do you not say, 'There are still four months, and then
comes the harvest?' Look, I tell to you, lift up your eyes,
and look on the fields, they are white, already ripe for
harvest.
36 The one who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for
life eternal, so that both the sower and the reaper may
rejoice together.
37 For in this case the saying is true, 'One sows and another
reaps.'
38 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others
have labored, and you have entered into their labor."

39 From that town many of the Samaritans believed on him
because of the word of the woman, who testified, 'He told
me everything that I ever did.'
40 When the Samaritans came to him, they invited him to
stay with them. So he stayed there two days.
41 Many more believed because of his word.
42 Then they said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because
of what you said, for we have heard for ourselves, and
know that this is in fact the Savior of the world."

43 After the two days he left there for Galilee.
44 For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor
in his own country.
45 So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him,
having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the
feast; for they also had gone to the feast.
46 Once again he came to Cana of Galilee, where he had made the
water into wine. Now there was a certain government official
whose son was sick at Capernaum.
47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee,
he went to him, and begged Jesus to come down and heal his
son; for he was at the point of death.
48 Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders,
you will never believe."
49 The government official said to him, "Sir, come down before
my child dies."
50 Jesus replied, "Go your way, your son lives." The man
believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went
his way.
51 As he was going back, his servants met him, telling him
that his son was alive.
52 So he asked them the hour when he began to get better.
They told him, "Yesterday, at the one in the afternoon
the fever left him."
53 Then the father realized that it was at that precise
hour that Jesus had told him, "Your son lives." Then he
himself believed and his whole house.
54 This again was a second miraculous sign that Jesus did
after having come out of Judea into Galilee.

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