John 4:1-38 ▼

1 Therefore when Jesus knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus makes and baptizes more disciples than John—

2 although indeed Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples—

3 He left Judea and went away again into Galilee.

4 And it was necessary for Him to pass through Samaria.

5 Therefore He comes to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

6 And Jacob’s well was there. Therefore Jesus, wearied from the journey, was thus sitting at the well. The hour was about the sixth.

7 A woman out of Samaria comes to draw water. Jesus says to her, “Give to Me to drink.”

8 For His disciples had gone away into the city, that they might buy food.

9 Therefore the Samaritan woman says to Him, “How do You, being a Jew, ask to drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?” For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.

10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you had known the gift of God and who it is saying to you, ‘Give to Me to drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given to you living water.”

11 The woman says to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; from where, then, do You have the living water?

12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank out of it himself, and his sons and his livestock?”

13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone drinking of this water will thirst again;

14 but whoever may drink of the water that I will give him, he will never thirst, to the age. Rather, the water that I will give to him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

15 The woman says to Him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I might not thirst nor come here to draw.”

16 He says to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.”

17 The woman answered and said to Him, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus says to her, “You have spoken correctly, ‘I do not have a husband.’

18 For you have had five husbands, and the one whom you have now is not your husband; this you have said truly.”

19 The woman says to Him, “Sir, I see that You are a prophet.

20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you? say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary to worship.”

21 Jesus says to her, “Believe Me, woman, that an hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you? worship the Father.

22 You? worship what you? do not know; we worship what we know, because salvation is of the Jews.

23 But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father also seeks such who worship Him.

24 God is Spirit, and it is necessary for those worshiping Him to worship in spirit and truth.”

25 The woman says to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming, who is called Christ; when He comes, He will declare to us all things.”

26 Jesus says to her, “I am He—the One speaking to you.”

27 And upon this His disciples came and marveled that He was speaking with a woman. No one, however, said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why do You speak with her?”

28 Then the woman left her water jar and went away into the city, and she says to the men,

29 “Come, see a man who told me all things, as many as I did. Could this be the Christ?”

30 They went out of the city and were coming to Him.

31 In the meantime the disciples were urging Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

32 But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you? do not know.”

33 Therefore the disciples were saying to one another, “Did anyone bring Him something to eat?”

34 Jesus says to them, “My food is that I should do the will of the One having sent Me and should finish His work.

35 Do you? not say, ‘It is yet four months and the harvest comes’? Behold, I say to you?, lift up your? eyes and look at the fields, because they are white to harvest already.

36 The one reaping receives a wage and gathers fruit unto eternal life, so that the one sowing and the one reaping may rejoice together.

37 For in this the word is true, that is, ‘One is sowing and another is reaping.’

38 I sent you? to reap what you? have not labored for; others have labored, and you? have entered into their labor.”