John 4:36-54 ▼

36 And he that reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for life eternal; that he that sows, and he that reaps, may rejoice together.

37 For in this is the saying true, One sows and another reaps.

38 I have sent you to reap that on which you bestowed no labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.

39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him, because of the word of the woman who testified, He told me all things that I ever did.

40 When, therefore, the Samaritans came to him, they besought him to abide with them. And he abode there two days.

41 And many more believed because of his own word;

42 and they said to the woman: We no longer believe because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this is in truth the Savior of the world, the Christ.

43 And after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee;

44 for Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

45 Therefore, when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, because they had seen all things that he had done in Jerusalem during the feast; for they themselves had gone to the feast.

46 Then Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain courtier, whose son was sick in Capernaum.

47 When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and besought him that he would come down, and restore his son to health, for he was about to die.

48 Then said Jesus to him: Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe.

49 The courtier said to him: Sir, come down before my child die.

50 Jesus said to him: Go, your child lives. And the man believed the word that Jesus spoke, and departed.

51 And as he was going down, his servants met him, and said: Your son lives.

52 Then he inquired of them the hour in which he was restored to health. And they said to him: Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him.

53 Then his father knew that it was in the same hour in which Jesus said to him, Your son lives. And he himself, and all his house, believed.

54 This is the second sign which Jesus did, when he came out of Judea into Galilee.