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¹ Jesus therefore knowing the Pharisees had heard that he made more disciples, and baptized more than John, ² (though Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples) he left Judea, ³ and returned into Galilee.

⁴ but being obliged to pass through Samaria, ⁵ he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the piece of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. ⁶ now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey, sat him down by the well: it being about the sixth hour. ⁷ where a woman of Samaria being come to draw water, Jesus said to her, give me to drink. ⁸ for his disciples were gone away to the city to buy provisions. ⁹ but the woman of Samaria said to him, how is it that you who are a Jew, ask drink of me, who am a Samaritan? (for the Jews have no friendly intercourse with the Samaritans.) ¹⁰ Jesus answered her, if you knew the dispensation of God, and who it is that says to you, give me to drink; you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water. ¹¹ sir, said the woman, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then can you get that living water? ¹² are you wiser than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, as well as his children, and cattle? ¹³ Jesus answered her, they that drink of this water, will be thirsty again: ¹⁴ but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst: for the water that I shall give him, shall be in him a fountain springing up to everlasting life. ¹⁵ sir, replied the woman, give me this water, that I may never be adry, nor come hither to draw more. ¹⁶ go, call your husband, said Jesus, and come again. ¹⁷ the woman answered, I have no husband. Jesus replied, you were in the right to say you have no husband: ¹⁸ for you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have, is not your husband: in that you said true. ¹⁹ the woman said to him, sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. ²⁰ our fathers worshipped upon this mountain; and you say, that Jerusalem is the place where we ought to perform our worship. ²¹ Jesus said to her, woman, believe me, the time is coming when it shall be neither on this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem that ye shall worship the father. ²² ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is from the Jews. ²³ but the time is coming, nay, is very nigh, when the true worshippers shall worship the father in spirit and in truth: for they are the worshippers which he requires. ²⁴ God is a spirit, and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth. ²⁵ then said the woman to him, I know that the Messias (that is to say the Christ) is to come, and when he is come, he will tell us all things. ²⁶ Jesus said to her, I that am talking with you am he.

²⁷ Upon this his disciples came, and were surpriz'd at his conversing with the woman: yet none of them said, what did you ask her? or, why do you talk with her? ²⁸ the woman then left her water-pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people, come, ²⁹ see a man who told me all that ever I have done: is not this the Christ? ³⁰ so they went out of the city, and came to him. ³¹ In the mean while his disciples invited him, saying, pray master, eat. ³² but he answered them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of: ³³ upon which the disciples said one to another, hath any man brought him any thing to eat? ³⁴ Jesus said to them, my meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. ³⁵ is it not a common saying, "t'other four months, and then comes harvest?" lift up your eyes now, I say, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. ³⁶ he that reapeth, receiveth wages, by gathering fruit unto life eternal: that the sower, and the reaper, may both rejoice together. ³⁷ upon this occasion, that saying is verified, "one soweth, and another reapeth." ³⁸ I sent you to reap where you bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and you are entred into their labours. ³⁹ Now many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him, for that testimony which the woman gave him, "he told me all that ever I did." ⁴⁰ so that when the Samaritans were come to him, they desired him to stay with them: and he stay'd there two days. ⁴¹ and many more believed, for having heard him speak himself: and said to the woman, ⁴² now it is not for what you have said, that we believe: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the saviour of the world, the Christ.

⁴³ Two days after, he departed thence, and went into Galilee: ⁴⁴ (tho' Jesus himself had declared, that a prophet is not honoured in his own country.) ⁴⁵ when he was come into Galilee, he was well received by the Galileans, who had seen all that he did at Jerusalem during the feast: for they likewise went to the feast. ⁴⁶ Jesus went therefore a second time to Cana in Galilee, where he had changed the water into wine. now a certain nobleman was there, whose son was sick at Capernaum. ⁴⁷ who having heard that Jesus was come out of Judea into Galilee, he went there to desire him to come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death. ⁴⁸ but Jesus said to him, except you see signs and miracles, you will not believe. ⁴⁹ the nobleman said to him, sir, pray come down before my child be dead. ⁵⁰ go thy way, said Jesus: thy son is well. and the man believed what Jesus had said to him, and went his way. ⁵¹ as he was upon the road, his servants met him, and acquainted him, that his son was well. ⁵² then he enquired of them the hour when he began to mend: and they answered, yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. ⁵³ so the father knew that it was at the very same hour, at which Jesus said to him, thy son is well. and he himself believed, and all his family. ⁵⁴ Jesus did this second miracle when he return'd from Judea to Galilee.