So when ^athe Lord learned that the Pharisees had been told that Jesus was making and ^bbaptizing more disciples than John 2 (although ^aJesus Himself was not baptizing, but His ^bdisciples were), 3 He left ^aJudea and ^breturned again to Galilee. 4 Now ¹He had to go through ^2aSamaria. 5 So He arrived at a ^aSamaritan town called Sychar, near ^bthe tract of land that ^cJacob gave to his son Joseph; 6 and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, tired as He was from His journey, sat down by the well. It was then about the sixth hour (noon) .

7 Then a woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink”— 8 For His ^adisciples had gone off into ^bthe city to buy food— 9 The ^aSamaritan woman asked Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me, a ¹Samaritan woman, for a drink?” (For ^bJews have nothing to do with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew about God’s gift of eternal life, and who it is who says, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him instead, and He would have given you ^aliving water (eternal life) .” 11 She said to Him, “Sir, ¹You have nothing to draw with no bucket and rope and the well is deep. Where then do You get that ^aliving water? 12 Are You greater than our father ¹Jacob, who ^agave us the well, and who used to drink from it himself, and his sons and his cattle also?” 13 Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. 14 But whoever drinks the water that I give him ^awill never be thirsty again. But the water that I give him will become in him a spring of water satisfying his thirst for God welling up continually flowing, bubbling within him to ^beternal life.”

15 The woman said to Him, “Sir, ^agive me this water, so that I will not get thirsty nor have to continually come all the way here to draw.” 16 At this, Jesus said, “Go, call your husband and come back.” 17 The woman answered, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I do not have a husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the man you are now living with is not your ¹husband. You have said this truthfully.” 19 The woman said to Him, “Sir, I see that You are ^aa prophet. 20 ^aOur fathers worshiped on ^bthis mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one ought to worship is in ^cJerusalem at the temple.” 21 Jesus replied, “Woman, believe Me, ^aa time is coming when God’s kingdom comes when you will worship the Father ^bneither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 ^aYou Samaritans do not know what you worship; we Jews do know what we worship, for ^bsalvation is from the Jews. 23 But ^aa time is coming and is already here when the true worshipers will worship the Father ^bin spirit from the heart, the inner self and in truth; for the Father seeks such people to be His worshipers. 24 God is spirit the Source of life, yet invisible to mankind, and those who worship Him must worship ^ain spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to Him, “I know that ^aMessiah is coming (^bHe who is called Christ—the Anointed); when that One comes, He will tell us everything we need to know.” 26 Jesus said to her, “^aI who speak to you, am He (the Messiah) .”

27 Just then His ^adisciples came, and they were surprised to find Him talking with a woman. However, no one said, “What are You asking about?” or, “Why are You talking to her?” 28 Then the woman left her water jar, and went into the city and began telling the people, 29 “Come, see a man ^awho told me all the things that I have done! Can ^bthis be the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed) ?” 30 So the people left the city and were coming to Him.

31 Meanwhile, the disciples were urging Jesus to have a meal, saying, “^aRabbi (Teacher) , eat.” 32 But He told them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” 33 So the ^adisciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him something to eat?” 34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to ^ado the will of Him who sent Me and to ^bcompletely finish His work. 35 Do you not say, ‘It is still four months until the harvest comes?’ Look, I say to you, raise your eyes and look at the fields and see, they are white ^afor harvest. 36 Already the reaper is receiving his ^awages and he is gathering ^bfruit for ^ceternal life; so that he who plants and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37 For in this case the saying is true, ‘^aOne person sows and another reaps.’ 38 I sent you to reap a crop for which you have not worked. Others have worked and you have been privileged to reap the results of their work.”

39 Now many Samaritans from ^athat city believed in Him and trusted Him as Savior because of what the woman said when she testified, “^bHe told me all the things that I have done.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked Him to remain with them; and He stayed there two days. 41 Many more believed in Him with a deep, abiding trust because of His word His personal message to them; 42 and they told the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; for now we have heard Him for ourselves and know with confident assurance that this One is truly ^athe Savior of all the world.”

43 After ^athe two days He went on from there into Galilee. 44 For Jesus Himself declared that ^aa prophet has no honor in his own country. 45 So when He arrived in Galilee, the Galileans ¹welcomed Him, since they ^ahad seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they too came to the feast.

46 So Jesus came again to ^aCana of Galilee, ^bwhere He had turned the water into wine. And there was a ¹certain royal official whose son was sick in ^cCapernaum. 47 Having heard that Jesus had come back ^afrom Judea to Galilee, he ¹went to meet Him and began asking Him to come down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death. 48 Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see miraculous ^asigns and ^bwonders, you simply will not believe.” 49 The royal official pleaded with Him, “Sir, do come down at once before my child dies!” 50 Jesus said to him, “^aGo; your son lives!” The man believed what Jesus said to him and started home. 51 As he was already going down the road, his servants met him and reported that his son was living and was healthy. 52 So he asked them at what time he began to get better. They said, “Yesterday during the seventh hour (1 p.m.) the fever left him.” 53 Then the father realized that it was at that very hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son lives”; and he and ^ahis entire household believed and confidently trusted in Him as Savior. 54 This is the ^asecond sign (attesting miracle) that Jesus performed in Cana after He had ^bcome from Judea to Galilee revealing that He is the Messiah.