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¹ WHEN Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard he made many disciples, and was baptizing more people than John,² Though Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples;³ He left Judaea and came again to Galilee.

⁴ He had to go through Samaritan territory.⁵ Then he came to a Samaritan city, called Sychar, near the field which Jacob had given to his son Joseph.⁶ Now Jacob''s well was there; and Jesus was tired by the fatigue of the journey, and sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.⁷ And there came a woman from Samaria to draw water; and Jesus said to her, Give me water to drink.⁸ His disciples had entered into the city to buy food for themselves.⁹ The Samaritan woman said to him, How is it? You are a Jew, and yet you ask me for a drink, who am a Samaritan woman? For Jews have no social intercourse with Samaritans.¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her, If you only knew the gift of God, and who is the man who said to you, Give me a drink; you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.¹¹ The woman said to him, My lord, you have no leather bucket, and no deep well; where do you get the living water?¹² Why, are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well, and he himself drank from it, and his sons and his sheep?¹³ Jesus answered and said to her, Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again;¹⁴ But whoever drinks of the water which I give him, shall never thirst; but the same water which I give him shall become in him a well of water springing up to life everlasting.¹⁵ The woman said to him, My lord, give me of this water, so that I may not thirst again, and need not come and draw from here.¹⁶ Jesus said to her, Go and call your husband, and come here.¹⁷ She said to him, I have no husband; Jesus said to her, You said well, I have no husband;¹⁸ For you have had five husbands; and the one you now have is not your husband; what you said is true.¹⁹ Then the woman said to him, My lord, I see that you are a prophet.²⁰ Our forefathers worshipped on this mountain; and you say the place where men must worship is in Jerusalem.²¹ Jesus said to her, Woman, believe me, the time is coming, when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem they will worship the Father.²² You worship what you do not know; but we worship what we do know; for salvation is from the Jews.²³ But the time is coming, and it is here, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for the Father also desires worshippers such as these.²⁴ For God is Spirit; and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.²⁵ The woman said to him, I know that the Messiah (Christ) is coming; when he is come, he will teach us everything.²⁶ Jesus said to her, I am he, who is speaking to you.

²⁷ While he was talking, his disciples came, and they were surprised that he was talking with a married woman; but no one said to him, What do you want? or, What are you talking with her?²⁸ The woman then left her water jar, and went to the city and said to the men,²⁹ Come and see a man who told me everything which I have done; why, is he the Christ?³⁰ And the men went out of the city, and came to him.³¹ During the interval his disciples begged him, saying, Teacher, eat.³² But he said to them, I have food to eat, of which you do not know.³³ The disciples said among themselves, Why, did any man bring him something to eat?³⁴ Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work.³⁵ Do you not say that after four months comes the harvest? behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, which have turned white and have long been ready for the harvest.³⁶ And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruits to life everlasting; so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.³⁷ For in this case the saying is true, One sows and another reaps.³⁸ I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor; for others labored, and you have entered into their labor.³⁹ A great many Samaritans of that city believed in him, because of the word of that woman, who testified, He told me everything which I have done.⁴⁰ So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them; and he stayed with them two days.⁴¹ And a great many believed in him because of his word;⁴² And they were saying to the woman, Henceforth it is not because of your word that we believe him; for we ourselves have heard and know, that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.

⁴³ Two days later, Jesus departed thence and went to Galilee.⁴⁴ For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet is not honored in his own city.⁴⁵ When he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, for they had seen all the wonders he did at Jerusalem during the feast; for they also had come to the feast.⁴⁶ Then Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was at Capernaum a servant of a king, whose son was sick.⁴⁷ This man heard that Jesus had come from Judaea to Galilee; so he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son; for he was near death.⁴⁸ Jesus said to him, Unless you see miracles and wonders, you will not believe.⁴⁹ The king''s servant said to him, My Lord, come down before the boy is dead.⁵⁰ Jesus said to him, Go, your son is healed. And the man believed the word that Jesus said to him and went away.⁵¹ And as he was going down, his servants met him and brought him good news, saying, Your son is healed.⁵² And he asked them, At what time was he healed? They said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him.⁵³ And his father knew that it was at that very hour when Jesus told him, Your son is healed; so he himself believed and his whole household.⁵⁴ This is again the second miracle which Jesus did, after he came from Judaea to Galilee.