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Jesus and the Woman of Samaria

¹ Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and ^(a)baptizing more disciples than John ² (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), ³ he left Judea and departed ^(b)again for Galilee. ^4 (c)And he had to pass through Samaria. ⁵ So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field ^(d)that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ⁶ Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, ^(e)wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.^[a]

⁷ A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, ^(f)"Give me a drink." ⁸ (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) ⁹ The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?" (^(g)For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) ¹⁰ Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you ^(h)living water." ¹¹ The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? ^12 (i)Are you greater than our father Jacob? ^(j)He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock." ¹³ Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴ but ^(k)whoever drinks of the water that I will give him ^(l)will never be thirsty again.^[b] The water that I will give him will become ^(m)in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." ¹⁵ The woman said to him, "Sir, ⁽ⁿ⁾give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water."

¹⁶ Jesus said to her, "Go, ^(o)call your husband, and come here." ¹⁷ The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband'; ¹⁸ for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true." ¹⁹ The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that ^(p)you are ^(q)a prophet. ^20 (r)Our fathers worshiped on ^(s)this mountain, but you say that ^(t)in Jerusalem is ^(u)the place where people ought to worship." ²¹ Jesus said to her, ^(v)"Woman, believe me, ^(w)the hour is coming when ^(x)neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. ^22 (y)You worship what you do not know; ^(z)we worship what we know, for ^(aa)salvation is ^(ab)from the Jews. ²³ But ^(ac)the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father ^(ad)in spirit and ^(ae)truth, for the Father ^(af)is seeking such people to worship him. ²⁴ God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." ²⁵ The woman said to him, "I know that ^(ag)Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, ^(ah)he will tell us all things." ²⁶ Jesus said to her, ^(ai)"I who speak to you am he."

²⁷ Just then ^(aj)his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, "What do you seek?" or, "Why are you talking with her?" ²⁸ So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, ²⁹ "Come, see a man ^(ak)who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?" ³⁰ They went out of the town and were coming to him.

³¹ Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, ^(al)"Rabbi, eat." ³² But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about." ³³ So the disciples said to one another, ^(am)"Has anyone brought him something to eat?" ³⁴ Jesus said to them, ^(an)"My food is ^(ao)to do the will of him who sent me and ^(ap)to accomplish his work. ³⁵ Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest'? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that ^(aq)the fields are white for harvest. ³⁶ Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that ^(ar)sower and ^(as)reaper ^(at)may rejoice together. ³⁷ For here the saying holds true, ^(au)‘One sows and another reaps.' ³⁸ I sent you to reap ^(av)that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, ^(aw)and you have entered into their labor."

³⁹ Many Samaritans ^(ax)from that town believed in him ^(ay)because of ^(az)the woman's testimony, "He told me all that I ever did." ⁴⁰ So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. ⁴¹ And many more believed ^(ba)because of his word. ⁴² They said to the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, ^(bb)and we know that this is indeed ^(bc)the Savior ^(bd)of the world."

⁴³ After ^(be)the two days he departed for Galilee. ⁴⁴ (For Jesus himself had testified ^(bf)that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.) ⁴⁵ So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, ^(bg)having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For ^(bh)they too had gone to the feast.

Jesus Heals an Official's Son

⁴⁶ So he came again to ^(bi)Cana in Galilee, ^(bj)where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. ⁴⁷ When this man heard that Jesus ^(bk)had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. ⁴⁸ So Jesus said to him, ^(bl)"Unless you^[c] see signs and wonders you will not believe." ⁴⁹ The official said to him, "Sir, come down ^(bm)before my child dies." ⁵⁰ Jesus said to him, "Go; your son will live." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. ⁵¹ As he was going down, his servants^[d] met him and told him that his son was recovering. ⁵² So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour^[e] the fever left him." ⁵³ The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live." And he himself believed, ^(bn)and all his household. ^54 (bo)This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.