4:10 Jesus answered 7 her, “If you had known 8 the gift of God and who it is who said to you, ‘Give me some water 9 to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 10 4:11 “Sir,” 11 the woman 12 said to him, “you have no bucket and the well 13 is deep; where then do you get this 14 living water? 15 4:12 Surely you’re not greater than our ancestor 16 Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.” 17
4:13 Jesus replied, 18 “Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty 19 again. 4:14 But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, 20 but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain 21 of water springing up 22 to eternal life.” 4:15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw 23 water.” 24 4:16 He 25 said to her, “Go call your husband and come back here.” 26 4:17 The woman replied, 27 “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “Right you are when you said, 28 ‘I have no husband,’ 29 4:18 for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with 30 now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!”
4:19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I see 31 that you are a prophet. 4:20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, 32 and you people 33 say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.” 34 4:21 Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, 35 a time 36 is coming when you will worship 37 the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 4:22 You people 38 worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. 39 4:23 But a time 40 is coming – and now is here 41 – when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks 42 such people to be 43 his worshipers. 44 4:24 God is spirit, 45 and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 4:25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (the one called Christ); 46 “whenever he 47 comes, he will tell 48 us everything.” 49 4:26 Jesus said to her, “I, the one speaking to you, am he.”
4:27 Now at that very moment his disciples came back. 50 They were shocked 51 because he was speaking 52 with a woman. However, no one said, “What do you want?” 53 or “Why are you speaking with her?” 4:28 Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people, 54 4:29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can’t be the Messiah, 55 can he?” 56 4:30 So 57 they left the town and began coming 58 to him.
4:31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, 59 “Rabbi, eat something.” 60 4:32 But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.” 4:33 So the disciples began to say 61 to one another, “No one brought him anything 62 to eat, did they?” 63 4:34 Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me 64 and to complete 65 his work. 66 4:35 Don’t you say, 67 ‘There are four more months and then comes the harvest?’ I tell you, look up 68 and see that the fields are already white 69 for harvest! 4:36 The one who reaps receives pay 70 and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together. 4:37 For in this instance the saying is true, 71 ‘One sows and another reaps.’ 4:38 I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”
4:39 Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified, 72 “He told me everything I ever did.” 4:40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking 73 him to stay with them. 74 He stayed there two days, 4:41 and because of his word many more 75 believed. 4:42 They said to the woman, “No longer do we believe because of your words, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this one 76 really is the Savior of the world.” 77
4:43 After the two days he departed from there to Galilee. 4:44 (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) 78 4:45 So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem 79 at the feast 80 (for they themselves had gone to the feast). 81
4:46 Now he came again to Cana 82 in Galilee where he had made the water wine. 83 In 84 Capernaum 85 there was a certain royal official 86 whose son was sick. 4:47 When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him 87 to come down and heal his son, who was about to die. 4:48 So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people 88 see signs and wonders you will never believe!” 89 4:49 “Sir,” the official said to him, “come down before my child dies.” 4:50 Jesus told him, “Go home; 90 your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and set off for home. 91
4:51 While he was on his way down, 92 his slaves 93 met him and told him that his son was going to live. 4:52 So he asked them the time 94 when his condition began to improve, 95 and 96 they told him, “Yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoon 97 the fever left him.” 4:53 Then the father realized that it was the very time 98 Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live,” and he himself believed along with his entire household. 4:54 Jesus did this as his second miraculous sign 99 when he returned from Judea to Galilee.