John 4 — FBV
4Verse 1When Jesus realized that the Pharisees had discovered that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John,Verse 2(although it wasn't Jesus who was baptizing, but his disciples),Verse 3he left Judea and returned to Galilee.Verse 4On the way he had to pass through Samaria.Verse 5So he came to the Samaritan city of Sychar, near to the field that Jacob had given his son Joseph.Verse 6Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, who was tired from the journey, sat straight down beside the well. It was around noon.Verse 7A Samaritan woman came to fetch water. Jesus said to her, “Please could you give me a drink?”Verse 8for his disciples had gone to the town to buy food.Verse 9“You're a Jew, and I'm a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” the woman replied, for Jews don't associate with Samaritans.+Verse 10Jesus answered her, “If you only recognized God's gift, and who is asking you, ‘Please could you give me a drink?’ you would have asked him and he would have given you the water of life.”Verse 11“Sir, you don't have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get the water of life from?” she replied.Verse 12“Our father Jacob gave us the well. He drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock. Are you greater than he?”Verse 13Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks water from this well will become thirsty again.Verse 14But those who drink the water I give won't ever be thirsty again. The water I give becomes a bubbling spring of water inside them, bringing them eternal life.”Verse 15“Sir,” replied the woman, “Please give me this water so I won't be thirsty, and I won't have to come here to fetch water!”Verse 16“Go and call your husband, and come back here,” Jesus told her.Verse 17“I don't have a husband,” the woman answered. “You're right in saying you don't have a husband,” Jesus told her.Verse 18“You've had five husbands, and the one you're living with now is not your husband. So what you say is true!”Verse 19“I can see you're a prophet, sir,” the woman replied.Verse 20“Tell me this: our ancestors worshiped here on this mountain, but you+say that Jerusalem is where we must worship.”Verse 21Jesus replied,+“Believe me the time is coming when you won't worship the Father either on this mountain or in Jerusalem.Verse 22You really don't know the God+you're worshiping, while we worship the God we know, for salvation comes from the Jews.Verse 23But the time is coming—and in fact it's here already—when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for these are the kind of worshipers the Father wants.Verse 24God is Spirit, so worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.”Verse 25The woman said, “Well, I know that the Messiah is coming,” (the one who is called Christ). “When he comes he will explain it all to us.”Verse 26Jesus replied, “I AM—the one who is speaking to you.”+Verse 27Just then the disciples returned. They were shocked that he was talking to a woman, but none of them asked “What are you doing?” or “Why are you talking with her?”Verse 28The woman left her water jar behind and ran back to the town, telling the people,Verse 29“Come and meet a man who told me everything I ever did! Could this be the Messiah?”Verse 30So they went out of the town to go and see him.Verse 31Meanwhile Jesus' disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, please eat something!”Verse 32But Jesus replied, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”Verse 33“Did someone bring him food?” the disciples asked one another.Verse 34Jesus told them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me, and to complete his work.Verse 35Don't you have a saying, ‘four more months until harvest?’+Open your eyes and look around! The crops in the fields are ripe, ready for harvest.Verse 36The reaper is being paid and harvesting a crop for eternal life so that both the sower and the reaper can celebrate.Verse 37So the proverb ‘one sows, another reaps,’ is true.Verse 38I sent you to reap what you didn't work for. Others did the hard work and you have reaped the benefits of what they did.”Verse 39Many Samaritans from that town trusted in him because of what the woman said: “He told me everything I ever did.”Verse 40So when they came to see him they pleaded with him to stay with them. He stayed for two days,Verse 41and because of what he told them many more trusted in him.Verse 42They said to the woman, “Now our trust in him isn't just because of what you told us but because we have heard him for ourselves. We're convinced that he really is the Savior of the world.”Verse 43After the two days he continued on to Galilee.Verse 44Jesus himself had made the comment that a prophet is not respected in his own country.Verse 45But when he arrived in Galilee, the people welcomed him, because they had also been at the Passover feast and had seen everything he'd done in Jerusalem.Verse 46He visited Cana in Galilee again, where he had turned water into wine. Nearby in the town of Capernaum lived a royal official whose son was very sick.Verse 47When he heard that Jesus had returned from Judea to Galilee, he went to Jesus and begged him to come and heal his son who was close to death.Verse 48“Unless you see signs and wonders you people really won't trust me,” said Jesus.Verse 49“Lord, just come before my child dies,” the official pleaded.Verse 50“Go on home,” Jesus told him. “Your son will live!” The man trusted what Jesus told him and left for home.Verse 51While he was on his way, his servants met him with the news that his son was alive and recovering.Verse 52He asked them what time it was when his son began to get better. “Yesterday at one p.m. the fever left him,” they told him.Verse 53Then the father realized this was the precise time when Jesus had told him, “Your son will live!” So he and everyone in his household trusted in Jesus.Verse 54This was the second miraculous sign Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee.