1 Now whenthe Lord learned that the Pharisees heard he was making and baptizing more disciples than John
2 (although it was not Jesus himself who baptized them, but his disciples),
3 he left Judea and wentaway to Galilee.
4 But he had to pass through Samaria.
5 So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
6 Jacob's well was there, so Jesus, wearied as he was from the journey, sat by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 When a woman from Samaria came to draw water, Jesus said to her,
8 (For his disciples had gone into the city to buy food.)
9 So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that yoʋ, a Jew, ask for water to drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
10 Jesus answered her,
11 The woman said to him, “Sir, yoʋ do not even have a bucket to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then can yoʋ get this living water?
12 Are yoʋ greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock?”
13 Jesus answered her,
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I will not get thirsty again and have to come here to draw water.”
16 Jesus said to her,
17 The womansaid in response, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her,
19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that yoʋ are a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”
21 Jesus said to her,
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 said to her,
27 Just then his disciples came back, and they were amazed that he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, “What do yoʋ want?” or, “Why are yoʋ speaking with her?”
28 Then the woman left her water jar, went into the town, and said to the people,
29 “Come see a man who told me everything I have ever done. Could this be the Christ?”
30 So they left the town and began coming to him.
31 In the meantime the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, eat.”
32 But he said to them,
33 So the disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought him something to eat?”
34 Jesus said to them,
39 Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman's testimony: “He told me everything I have ever done.”
40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there for two days.
41 And many more believed because of his word.
42 So they said to the woman, “It is no longer because of yoʋr report that we believe, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this is trulythe Christ, the Savior of the world.”
43 After two days, he departed from thereand went to Galilee.
44 (For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.)
45 When he came to Galilee, the Galileans received him because they had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also had gone to the feast.
46 Once more Jesus went to Cana of Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. Now there was a certain royal official whose son was sick in Capernaum.
47 When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for his son was about to die.
48 Then Jesus said to him,
49 The royal official said to him, “Sir, come down before my boy dies.”
50 Jesus said to him,And the man believed what Jesus said to him and went on his way.
51 As he was going back down to his house, his servants met him and toldhim, “Yoʋr son is alive.”
52 So he asked them the hour when he began to get better. They said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.”
53 Then the father realized that this was the hour when Jesus had said to him,So he believed, along with his entire household.
54 This was the second sign that Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee.