- When - Jesus realized that the Pharisees were aware - (He) was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John -
(although (it was) not Jesus who baptized , but His - disciples) ,
He left - Jude -a and returned ... to - Galilee.
Now He had to pass through - Samaria.
So He came to a town - of Samaria called Sychar , near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his - son Joseph.
Since - Jacob’s well was there , - - Jesus , weary from (His) journey , - sat down by the well. It was about (the) sixth hour.
vvv vvv (When) a Samaritan woman came to draw water , - Jesus said to her , “ Give Me a drink. ”
( - His - disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
“ You are a Jew , ” - said the - - woman -. “ How {can} You ask for a drink from me , - a Samaritan woman ? ” (For Jews vvv do not associate with Samaritans.)
Jesus answered ... ... ... , “ If you knew the gift - of God and who is - asking you (for) ... a drink , you vvv would have asked Him , and vvv He would have given you living water. ”
“ Sir , ” the woman replied - , “ You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then will You get (this) - living water ?
Are ... You greater than our - father Jacob , who gave us (this) well and drank from it himself , (as did) his - sons and his - livestock ? ”
Jesus - - said to her , “ Everyone who drinks - this - water will be thirsty again.
But whoever ... drinks - the water - I give him vvv vvv will never thirst ... ... .... Indeed , the water - I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life. ”
The woman said to Him , “ Sir , give me this - water so that vvv I will not get thirsty (and) have to keep coming here to draw (water). ”
(Jesus) told her , “ Go , call your - husband and come (back). ”
“ I have no husband , ” the woman replied ... ... .... Jesus said to her - , “ You are correct {to say} that you have no husband.
In fact , you have had five husbands , and the man you now have ... is not your husband. - You have spoken tRuth -fully. ”
“ Sir , ” the woman said - , “ I see that You are a prophet.
Our - fathers worshiped on this - mountain , but you ( Jews ) say that the place where (one) must worship is in Jerusalem. ”
“ Believe Me , woman , ” - Jesus replied - , - “ a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this - mountain nor in Jerusalem.
You worship what vvv you do not know ; we worship what we do know , for - salvation is from the Jews.
But a time is coming and {has} now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in tRuth - , for - the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him.
- God (is) Spirit , and (His) worshipers must worship Him in spirit and (in) tRuth -. ”
The woman said - , “ I know that Messiah ” ( - called Christ) “ is coming. When He comes , He will explain everything to us. ”
- Jesus answered - , “ I who speak to you am (He). ”
Just then ... ... His - disciples returned and were surprised that He was speaking with a woman. But no one asked (Him) , “ What do You want (from her) ? ” or “ Why are You talking with her ? ”
Then the woman left her - water jar , - went back into the town , and said to the people ,
“ Come , see a man who told me everything vvv I ever did. Could this be the Christ ? ”
(So) they left ... the town and made their way toward (Jesus).
Meanwhile ... ... the disciples urged Him - , “ Rabbi , eat (something). ”
But - He told them , “ I have food to eat that you know nothing (about). ”
So the disciples asked - one another , “ (Could) someone have brought Him food ? ”
- Jesus explained ... , “ My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His - work.
{Do} you not say - , ‘ There are still four months (until) ... the harvest ’? - I tell you , lift up your - eyes and look at the fields , for they are vvv ripe for harvest.
{Already} the reaper draws (his) wages and gathers a crop for eternal life , so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.
For in this case the saying - - ‘ One - sows and another - reaps ’ is true.
I sent you to reap what you vvv have not worked for ; others have done the hard work , and {now} you have taken up ... their - labor. ”
- Many of the Samaritans from that - town believed in (Jesus) because of the - vvv woman’s testimony - , “ He told me everything vvv I ever did. ”
So when the Samaritans came to Him , they asked Him to stay with them , and He stayed ... two days.
And many more believed because of His - message.
- They said to the woman , - “ We now believe not only because of - your words ; we have heard - for ourselves , and we know that this (man) truly is the Savior of the world. ”
- After - two days , (Jesus) left ... for - Galilee.
Now (He) Himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in (his) own hometown.
Yet when He arrived - - - , the Galileans welcomed Him. They had seen all the great things ... He had done in Jerusalem at the feast , for they had gone vvv vvv (there) as well.
So once again He came to - Cana - in Galilee , where He had turned the water {into} wine. And there was a royal official whose - son lay sick at Capernaum.
(When) he heard that Jesus had come from - Jude -a to - Galilee , he went and begged - Him to come down and heal his - son , - who was about to die.
- - Jesus said to him , “ Unless ... you people see signs and wonders , vvv vvv you will never believe. ”
“ Sir , ” the official said - - , “ come down before my - child dies. ”
“ Go , ” said - Jesus -. “ Your - son will live. ” The man took Jesus - at His word ... ... ... ... and departed.
And while he {was} still on the way , his - servants met him with the news that his - boy was alive.
So he inquired as to ... ... the hour vvv when (his son) had recovered ... , and they told him - , “ The fever left him yesterday (at the) seventh hour. ”
Then the father realized that this was the very ... - hour in which - Jesus had told him , “ Your - son will live. ” And he and all his - household believed.
This (was) now vvv (the) second sign (that) Jesus performed after coming from - Jude -a into - Galilee.