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Jesus Goes to Galilee

¹ So when ^(C1)the Lord learned that the Pharisees had been told that Jesus was making and ^(C2)baptizing more disciples than John² (although ^(C1)Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His ^(C2)disciples were),³ He left ^(C1)Judea and ^(C2)returned again to Galilee.⁴ Now ^(F1)He had to go through ^(F2)(C1)Samaria.⁵ So He arrived at a ^(C1)Samaritan town called Sychar, near ^(C2)the tract of land that ^(C3)Jacob gave to his son Joseph;⁶ and Jacob's well was there. So Jesus, tired as He was from His journey, sat down by the well. It was then about the sixth hour (noon).

The Samaritan Woman

⁷ Then a woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink"—⁸ For His ^(C1)disciples had gone off into ^(C2)the city to buy food—⁹ The ^(C1)Samaritan woman asked Him, "How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me, a ^(F1)Samaritan woman, for a drink?" (For ^(C2)Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.)¹⁰ Jesus answered her, "If you knew about God's gift of eternal life, and who it is who says, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him instead, and He would have given you ^(C1)living water (eternal life)."¹¹ She said to Him, "Sir, ^(F1)You have nothing to draw with no bucket and rope and the well is deep. Where then do You get that ^(C1)living water?¹² "Are You greater than our father ^(F1)Jacob, who ^(C1)gave us the well, and who used to drink from it himself, and his sons and his cattle also?"¹³ Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.¹⁴ "But whoever drinks the water that I give him ^(C1)will never be thirsty again. But the water that I give him will become in him a spring of water satisfying his thirst for God welling up continually flowing, bubbling within him to ^(C2)eternal life."

¹⁵ The woman said to Him, "Sir, ^(C1)give me this water, so that I will not get thirsty nor have to continually come all the way here to draw."¹⁶ At this, Jesus said, "Go, call your husband and come back."¹⁷ The woman answered, "I do not have a husband." Jesus said to her, "You have correctly said, 'I do not have a husband';¹⁸ for you have had five husbands, and the man you are now living with is not your ^(F1)husband. You have said this truthfully."¹⁹ The woman said to Him, "Sir, I see that You are ^(C1)a prophet.²⁰ "^(C1)Our fathers worshiped on ^(C2)this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one ought to worship is in ^(C3)Jerusalem at the temple."²¹ Jesus replied, "Woman, believe Me, ^(C1)a time is coming when God's kingdom comes when you will worship the Father ^(C2)neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.²² "^(C1)You Samaritans do not know what you worship; we Jews do know what we worship, for ^(C2)salvation is from the Jews.²³ "But ^(C1)a time is coming and is already here when the true worshipers will worship the Father ^(C2)in spirit from the heart, the inner self and in truth; for the Father seeks such people to be His worshipers.²⁴ "God is spirit the Source of life, yet invisible to mankind, and those who worship Him must worship ^(C1)in spirit and truth."²⁵ The woman said to Him, "I know that ^(C1)Messiah is coming (^(C2)He who is called Christ—the Anointed); when that One comes, He will tell us everything we need to know."²⁶ Jesus said to her, "^(C1)I who speak to you, am He (the Messiah)."

²⁷ Just then His ^(C1)disciples came, and they were surprised to find Him talking with a woman. However, no one said, "What are You asking about?" or, "Why are You talking to her?"²⁸ Then the woman left her water jar, and went into the city and began telling the people,²⁹ "Come, see a man ^(C1)who told me all the things that I have done! Can ^(C2)this be the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed)?"³⁰ So the people left the city and were coming to Him.

³¹ Meanwhile, the disciples were urging Jesus to have a meal, saying, "^(C1)Rabbi (Teacher), eat."³² But He told them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about."³³ So the ^(C1)disciples said to one another, "Has anyone brought Him something to eat?"³⁴ Jesus said to them, "My food is to ^(C1)do the will of Him who sent Me and to ^(C2)completely finish His work.³⁵ "Do you not say, 'It is still four months until the harvest comes?' Look, I say to you, raise your eyes and look at the fields and see, they are white ^(C1)for harvest.³⁶ "Already the reaper is receiving his ^(C1)wages and he is gathering ^(C2)fruit for ^(C3)eternal life; so that he who plants and he who reaps may rejoice together.³⁷ "For in this case the saying is true, '^(C1)One person sows and another reaps.'³⁸ "I sent you to reap a crop for which you have not worked. Others have worked and you have been privileged to reap the results of their work."

The Samaritans

³⁹ Now many Samaritans from ^(C1)that city believed in Him and trusted Him as Savior because of what the woman said when she testified, "^(C2)He told me all the things that I have done."⁴⁰ So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked Him to remain with them; and He stayed there two days.⁴¹ Many more believed in Him with a deep, abiding trust because of His word His personal message to them;⁴² and they told the woman, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; for now we have heard Him for ourselves and know with confident assurance that this One is truly ^(C1)the Savior of all the world."

⁴³ After ^(C1)the two days He went on from there into Galilee.⁴⁴ For Jesus Himself declared that ^(C1)a prophet has no honor in his own country.⁴⁵ So when He arrived in Galilee, the Galileans ^(F1)welcomed Him, since they ^(C1)had seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they too came to the feast.

Healing a Nobleman's Son

⁴⁶ So Jesus came again to ^(C1)Cana of Galilee, ^(C2)where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a ^(F1)certain royal official whose son was sick in ^(C3)Capernaum.⁴⁷ Having heard that Jesus had come back ^(C1)from Judea to Galilee, he ^(F1)went to meet Him and began asking Him to come down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death.⁴⁸ Then Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see miraculous ^(C1)signs and ^(C1)wonders, you simply will not believe."⁴⁹ The royal official pleaded with Him, "Sir, do come down at once before my child dies!"⁵⁰ Jesus said to him, "^(C1)Go; your son lives!" The man believed what Jesus said to him and started home.⁵¹ As he was already going down the road, his servants met him and reported that his son was living and was healthy.⁵² So he asked them at what time he began to get better. They said, "Yesterday during the seventh hour (1 p.m.) the fever left him."⁵³ Then the father realized that it was at that very hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son lives"; and he and ^(C1)his entire household believed and confidently trusted in Him as Savior.⁵⁴ This is the ^(C1)second sign (attesting miracle) that Jesus performed in Cana after He had ^(C2)come from Judea to Galilee revealing that He is the Messiah.