John 4
4The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John,G5613G3767G2962G1097G3754G5330G191G3754G2424G4160G2532G907G4119G3101G2228G24912although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples.G2544G2424G846G907G3756G235G846G31013When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.G863G2449G2532G565G3825G1519G10564Now he had to go through Samaria.G1161G1163G1330G1223G45405So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.G3767G2064G1519G4172G4540G3004G4965G4139G5564G3739G2384G1325G846G5207G25016Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.G1161G2384G4077G2258G1563G2424G3767G2872G1537G3597G2516G3779G1909G4077G2258G5616G1623G56107When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?"G2064G1135G1537G4540G501G5204G2424G3004G846G1325G3427G40958(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)G1063G846G3101G565G1519G4172G2443G59G51609The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)G3767G3004G1135G4542G846G4459G4771G5607G2453G154G4095G3844G1700G5607G1135G4542G1063G2453G4798G3756G4798G454110Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."G2424G611G2532G2036G846G1487G1492G1431G2316G2532G5101G2076G3004G4671G1325G3427G4095G4771G302G154G846G2532G302G1325G4671G2198G520411"Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?G1135G3004G846G2962G2192G3777G502G2532G5421G2076G901G4159G3767G2192G2198G520412Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?"G3361G1488G4771G3187G2257G3962G2384G3739G1325G2254G5421G2532G4095G1537G846G846G2532G846G5207G2532G846G235313Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,G2424G611G2532G2036G846G3956G4095G1537G5127G5204G1372G382514but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."G1161G3739G302G4095G1537G5204G3739G1473G1325G846G1372G1519G165G3364G1372G235G5204G3739G1325G846G1096G1722G846G4077G5204G242G1519G166G222215The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water."G1135G3004G4314G846G2962G1325G3427G5124G5204G3363G1372G3363G3366G2064G1759G50116He told her, "Go, call your husband and come back."G2424G3004G846G5217G5455G4675G435G2532G2064G175917"I have no husband," she replied. Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband.G1135G611G2532G2036G2192G3756G435G2424G3004G846G2036G2573G2036G3754G2192G3756G43518The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true."G1063G2192G4002G435G2532G3739G2192G3568G2192G2076G3756G4675G435G5124G2046G22719"Sir," the woman said, "I can see that you are a prophet.G1135G3004G846G2962G2334G3754G4771G1488G439620Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem."G2257G3962G4352G1722G5129G3735G2532G5210G3004G3754G1722G2414G2076G5117G3699G1163G435221Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.G2424G3004G846G1135G4100G3427G5610G3754G2064G3753G4352G3777G1722G5129G3735G3777G1722G2414G4352G396222You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.G5210G4352G1492G3756G3739G1492G3739G2249G4352G3754G4991G2076G1537G245323Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.G235G5610G2064G2532G3568G2076G3753G228G4353G4352G3962G1722G4151G2532G225G2532G1063G3962G2212G5108G4352G84624God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."G2316G4151G2532G4352G846G1163G4352G1722G4151G2532G22525The woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us."G1135G3004G846G1492G3754G3323G2064G3588G3004G5547G3752G1565G2064G312G2254G395626Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am he."G2424G3004G846G1473G2980G4671G151027Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"G2532G1909G5129G2064G846G3101G2532G2296G3754G2980G3326G1135G3305G3762G2036G5101G2212G2228G5101G2980G3326G84628Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people,G1135G3767G863G846G5201G2532G565G1519G4172G2532G3004G44429"Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?"G1205G1492G444G3739G2036G3427G3956G3745G4160G2076G3385G3778G554730They came out of the town and made their way toward him.G3767G1831G1537G4172G2532G2064G4314G84631Meanwhile his disciples urged him, "Rabbi, eat something."G1161G1722G3342G3101G2065G846G3004G4461G531532But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about."G1161G2036G846G1473G2192G1035G5315G3739G5210G1492G3756G149233Then his disciples said to each other, "Could someone have brought him food?"G3767G3004G3101G4314G240G5342G3387G5342G846G531534"My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.G2424G3004G846G1699G1033G2076G2443G4160G2307G3992G3165G2532G5048G846G204135Do you not say, 'Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.G3004G3756G5210G3754G2076G2089G5072G2532G2064G2326G2400G3004G5213G1869G5216G3788G2532G2300G5561G3754G1526G3022G2235G4314G232636Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.G2532G2325G2983G3408G2532G4863G2590G1519G2222G166G2443G2532G4687G2532G2325G5463G367437Thus the saying 'One sows and another reaps' is true.G1063G1722G5129G2076G3056G228G3754G243G2076G4687G2532G243G232538I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor."G1473G649G5209G2325G3739G5210G2872G3756G2872G243G2872G2532G5210G1525G1519G846G287339Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did."G1161G4183G4541G1537G1565G4172G4100G1519G846G1223G3056G1135G3140G3754G2036G3427G3956G3745G416040So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days.G3767G5613G4541G2064G4314G846G2065G846G3306G3844G846G2532G3306G1563G1417G225041And because of his words many more became believers.G2532G4183G4119G4100G1223G846G305642They said to the woman, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world."G5037G3004G1135G3754G3765G4100G3754G1223G4674G2981G1063G191G846G2532G1492G3754G3778G2076G230G5547G4990G288943After the two days he left for Galilee.G1161G3326G1417G2250G565G1831G1564G2532G1519G105644(Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)G1063G2424G846G3140G3754G4396G2192G3756G5092G1722G2398G396845When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, for they also had been there.G3767G3753G2064G1519G1056G1057G1209G846G3708G3956G3739G4160G1722G2414G1722G1859G1063G846G2532G2064G1519G185946Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum.G3767G2424G2064G3825G1519G2580G1056G3699G4160G5204G3631G2532G2258G5100G937G3739G5207G770G1722G258447When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.G3778G191G3754G2424G2240G1537G2449G1519G1056G565G4314G846G2532G2065G846G2443G2597G2532G2390G846G5207G1063G3195G59948"Unless you people see miraculous signs and wonders," Jesus told him, "you will never believe."G3767G2036G2424G4314G846G3362G1492G4592G2532G5059G4100G3364G410049The royal official said, "Sir, come down before my child dies."G937G3004G4314G846G2962G2597G4250G3450G3813G59950Jesus replied, "You may go. Your son will live." The man took Jesus at his word and departed.G2424G3004G846G4198G4675G5207G2198G2532G444G4100G3056G3739G2424G2036G846G2532G419851While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living.G1161G846G2235G2597G846G1401G528G846G2532G518G3004G3754G4675G3816G219852When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, "The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour."G3767G4441G3844G846G5610G1722G3739G2192G2866G2532G2036G846G3754G5504G1442G5610G4446G863G84653Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live." So he and all his household believed.G3767G3962G1097G3754G1722G1565G5610G1722G3739G2424G2036G846G3754G4675G5207G2198G2532G846G4100G2532G846G3650G361454This was the second miraculous sign that Jesus performed, having come from Judea to Galilee.G5124G3825G1208G4592G2424G4160G2064G1537G2449G1519G1056
Columbus, OH
