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Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was gaining and baptising more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus Himself was not baptising, but His disciples were), 3 He left Judea and went again to Galilee. 4 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, weary as He was from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 When a woman of Samaria came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 8 At that time His disciples had gone to the town to buy food.
9 The Samaritan woman said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give Me 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 water with, and the well is deep. Where do 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 his sons and his livestock also?”
13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never thirst. The water that I will give him will become in him 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 here.”
17 “I have no husband,” she replied.
Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”
19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I see that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that Jerusalem is the place where people must worship.”
21 Jesus told her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour 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 know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father seeks such people as these to worship Him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and in truth.”
25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”
26 Jesus declared to her, “I who speak to you am He.”
27 Just then His disciples returned, and they were amazed that He was talking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do you want?” or, “Why are You talking with her?”
28 Then the woman left her water jar, 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 Christ?” 30 They left the town and made their way to Him.
31 Meanwhile the disciples kept urging Him, “Rabbi, eat something.”
32 But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”
33 So the disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought Him something to eat?”
34 “My food, Jesus told them, “is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work. 35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four more months, and then comes the harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already ripe for harvest. 36 Even now the reaper is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. 37 For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps’. 38 I sent you to reap what you didn’t work for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their work.”
39 Many 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 there two days. 41 And many more believed because of His words.
42 They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said, for now we have heard for ourselves and know that this really is the Saviour of the world.”
43 After two days He left there and went to Galilee. 44 (Jesus Himself had testified that a prophet has no honour in his own country.) 45 When He arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed Him, because they had seen all that He had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, for they had also been there.
46 Then He went again to Cana in Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son was sick at Capernaum. 47 When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to Him and begged Him to come down and heal his son, for was he close to death.
48 Jesus told him, “Unless you people see miraculous signs and wonders, you will not believe.”
49 The official said to Him, “Sir, come down before my boy dies.”
50 Jesus told him, “Go, your son will live.”
The man believed what Jesus said to him and departed. 51 While he was still on his way, his servants met him and told him the news that his boy was alive. 52 So he asked them at what time his son got better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”
53 Then the father realised that this was the same hour that Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” So he himself believed, along with his whole household.
54 This was the second miraculous sign that Jesus performed after He came from Judea to Galilee.