1 ¶ When the Lord learned that the Pharisees had heard that he made and baptized more disciples than John,

2 (Although it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples,)

3 He left Judea, and went back to Galilee.

4 ¶ Now he had to go through Samaria.

5 And he came to a town in Samaria, that is called Sychar, near to the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

6 Now Jacob’s well was there. Therefore Jesus, being tired from his journey, sat on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.

7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water: Jesus said to her, Let me have a drink.

8 (For his disciples had gone into the city to buy food.)

9 Then the Samaritan woman asked him, How is it that you, being a Jew, ask me for a drink, since I am a woman of Samaria? for Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

10 Answering Jesus said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who asked you for 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: from where then do you get that living water?

12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his children, and his cattle?

13 In answer Jesus said, Whoever drinks of this water will get thirsty again:

14 But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst; but the water that I will give him will be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

15 The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, so that I do not thirst, nor have to come here to get water.

16 Jesus said to her, Go, get your husband, and come back here.

17 The woman said, I have no husband. And Jesus said to her, You spoke truly when you said, I have no husband:

18 For you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband: in that you have spoken truly.

19 Then the woman said to him, Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and you say, that Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

21 Jesus said to her, Woman, believe me, the time is coming, when you will not worship the Father on this mountain, or in Jerusalem.

22 You Samaritans do not know what you are worshipping: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

23 But the time is coming, and is now here, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship him.

24 God is a Spirit: and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

25 The woman said, I know that Messiah is coming, he who is called Christ: when he comes, he will explain everything to us.

26 Jesus said to her, I who speak to you am he.

27 ¶ Just then his disciples returned, and were surprised that he talked with the woman: but no one asked, What do you want? or, Why are you talking with her?

28 The woman then left her water jar, and went into the town, and said to the people,

29 Come, and see a man, who told me everything I ever did: is not this the Christ?

30 Then the people left the town, and went to see him.

31 Meanwhile his disciples urged him, saying, Master, eat.

32 But he said to them, I have food to eat that you know nothing about.

33 Then his disciples said to one another, Has anyone brought him anything to eat?

34 Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work.

35 Do not say, There are yet four months, and then comes harvest? Look, I am telling you, Lift up your eyes, and look at the fields; for they are already ripe for harvest.

36 And he who reaps already receives wages, and is gathering fruit to life eternal: so that he who sows and he who reaps may both rejoice together.

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

38 I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored: other men have labored, and you have reaped the benefit of their labor.

39 And many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of what the woman said, who testified, He told me everything I ever did.

40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them: and he stayed there two days.

41 And many more believed because of what he said;

42 And they said to the woman, We no longer believe because of what you said: but we have heard him ourselves, and know that he really is the Messiah, the Savior of the world.

43 ¶ Now after the two days he left that place, and went into Galilee.

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

45 Then when he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done at Jerusalem at the feast: for they had also gone to the feast.

46 So once more Jesus visited Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official at Capernaum, whose son was sick.

47 When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him, and begged him to come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.

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

49 The royal official said to him, Sir, come down before my child dies.

50 Jesus said to him, Go your way; your son lives. And the man believed what Jesus said to him, and went his way.

51 And as he was on his way, his servants met him, and said to him, Your son lives.

52 Then he inquired as to the time when his son began to get better. And they told him, The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour.

53 Then the father realized that it was at that very hour, when Jesus said to him, Your son lives: so he and all his household believed.

54 This was the second miracle that Jesus performed, after having come from Judea to Galilee.