Jesus
Talks With
a
Samaritan
Woman
1
Now Jesus
learned
that the
Pharisees
had heard
that he
was
gaining
and
baptizing
more
disciples
than John—
2 although
in fact it
was not
Jesus who
baptized,
but his
disciples.
3 So he
left Judea
and went
back once
more to
Galilee.
4 Now he
had to go
through
Samaria.
5 So he
came to a
town in
Samaria
called
Sychar,
near the
plot of
ground
Jacob had
given to
his son
Joseph.
6 Jacob’s
well was
there, and
Jesus,
tired as
he was
from the
journey,
sat down
by the
well. It
was about
noon.
7 When a
Samaritan
woman came
to draw
water,
Jesus said
to her,
“Will you
give me a
drink?”
8 (His
disciples
had gone
into the
town to
buy food.)
9 The
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.)
10 Jesus
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.”
11 “Sir,”
the woman
said, “you
have
nothing to
draw with
and the
well is
deep.
Where can
you get
this
living
water?
12 Are
you
greater
than our
father
Jacob, who
gave us
the well
and drank
from it
himself,
as did
also his
sons and
his
livestock?”
13 Jesus
answered,
“Everyone
who drinks
this water
will be
thirsty
again,
14 but
whoever
drinks the
water I
give them
will never
thirst.
Indeed,
the water
I give
them will
become in
them a
spring of
water
welling up
to eternal
life.”
15 The
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.”
16 He told
her, “Go,
call your
husband
and come
back.”
17 “I have
no
husband,”
she
replied.
Jesus said
to her,
“You are
right when
you say
you have
no
husband.
18 The
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.”
19 “Sir,”
the woman
said, “I
can see
that you
are a
prophet.
20 Our
ancestors
worshiped
on this
mountain,
but you
Jews claim
that the
place
where we
must
worship is
in
Jerusalem.”
21 “Woman,”
Jesus
replied,
“believe
me, a time
is coming
when you
will
worship
the Father
neither on
this
mountain
nor in
Jerusalem.
22 You
Samaritans
worship
what you
do not
know; we
worship
what we do
know, for
salvation
is from
the Jews.
23 Yet a
time is
coming and
has now
come when
the true
worshipers
will
worship
the Father
in the
Spirit and
in truth,
for they
are the
kind of
worshipers
the Father
seeks.
24 God
is spirit,
and his
worshipers
must
worship in
the Spirit
and in
truth.”
25 The
woman
said, “I
know that
Messiah”
(called
Christ)
“is
coming.
When he
comes, he
will
explain
everything
to us.”
26 Then
Jesus
declared,
“I, the
one
speaking
to you—I
am he.”
The
Disciples
Rejoin
Jesus
27 Just
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?”
28 Then,
leaving
her water
jar, the
woman went
back to
the town
and said
to the
people,
29 “Come,
see a man
who told
me
everything
I ever
did. Could
this be
the
Messiah?”
30 They
came out
of the
town and
made their
way toward
him.
31 Meanwhile
his
disciples
urged him,
“Rabbi,
eat
something.”
32 But he
said to
them, “I
have food
to eat
that you
know
nothing
about.”
33 Then
his
disciples
said to
each
other,
“Could
someone
have
brought
him food?”
34 “My
food,”
said
Jesus, “is
to do the
will of
him who
sent me
and to
finish his
work.
35 Don’t
you have a
saying,
‘It’s
still four
months
until
harvest’?
I tell
you, open
your eyes
and look
at the
fields!
They are
ripe for
harvest.
36 Even
now the
one who
reaps
draws a
wage and
harvests a
crop for
eternal
life, so
that the
sower and
the reaper
may be
glad
together.
37 Thus
the saying
‘One sows
and
another
reaps’ is
true.
38 I
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.”
Many
Samaritans
Believe
39 Many of
the
Samaritans
from that
town
believed
in him
because of
the
woman’s
testimony,
“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 two
days.
41 And
because of
his words
many more
became
believers.
42 They
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.”
Jesus
Heals an
Official’s
Son
43 After
the two
days he
left for
Galilee.
44 (Now
Jesus
himself
had
pointed
out that a
prophet
has no
honor in
his own
country.)
45 When he
arrived in
Galilee,
the
Galileans
welcomed
him. They
had seen
all that
he had
done in
Jerusalem
at the
Passover
Festival,
for they
also had
been
there.
46 Once
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.
47 When
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.
48 “Unless
you people
see signs
and
wonders,”
Jesus told
him, “you
will never
believe.”
49 The
royal
official
said,
“Sir, come
down
before my
child
dies.”
50 “Go,”
Jesus
replied,
“your son
will
live.”
The man
took Jesus
at his
word and
departed.
51 While
he was
still on
the way,
his
servants
met him
with the
news that
his boy
was
living.
52 When he
inquired
as to the
time when
his son
got
better,
they said
to him,
“Yesterday,
at one in
the
afternoon,
the fever
left him.”
53 Then
the father
realized
that this
was the
exact time
at which
Jesus had
said to
him, “Your
son will
live.” So
he and his
whole
household
believed.
54 This
was the
second
sign Jesus
performed
after
coming
from Judea
to
Galilee.