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¹ When therefore Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John² -although Jesus himself didn't baptize, but his disciples-³ he left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.

⁴ And he must surely pass through Samaria.⁵ So he comes to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph:⁶ and Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.⁷ There comes a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus says to her, Give me to drink.⁸ For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.⁹ The Samaritan woman therefore says to him, How is it that you, being a Jew, ask drink of me, being a Samaritan woman? For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift 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 The woman says to him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from where then do you have that living water?¹² Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle?¹³ Jesus answered and said to her, Every one that drinks of this water shall thirst again:¹⁴ but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.¹⁵ The woman says to him, Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, neither come all the way here to draw.¹⁶ He says to her, Go, call your husband, and come here.¹⁷ The woman answered and said to him, I have no husband. Jesus says to her, You said well, I have no husband:¹⁸ for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband: this you have said truly.¹⁹ The woman says to him, Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.²⁰ Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and you say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.²¹ Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall you worship the Father.²² You worship that which you don't know: we worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.²³ But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such does the Father seek to be his worshipers.²⁴ God is Spirit: and those that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.²⁵ The woman says to him, I know that Messiah comes (he that is called Christ): when he has come, he will declare to us all things.²⁶ Jesus says to her, I am he that speaks to you.

²⁷ And on this his disciples came; and they marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no man said, What do you seek? or, Why do you speak with her?²⁸ So the woman left her waterpot, and went away into the city, and says to the people,²⁹ Come, see a man, who told me all things that I ever did: can this be the Christ?³⁰ They went out of the city, and were coming to him.³¹ In the meanwhile the disciples prayed him, saying, Rabbi, eat.³² But he said to them, I have meat to eat that you do not know.³³ The disciples therefore said one to another, Has any man brought him [anything] to eat?³⁴ Jesus says to them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.³⁵ Don't you say, There are yet four months, and [then] comes the harvest? look, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, that they are white to harvest.³⁶ Already he that reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together.³⁷ For in this is the saying true, One sows, and another reaps.³⁸ I sent you to reap that whereon you have not labored: others have labored, and you are entered into their labor.³⁹ And from that city many of the Samaritans believed on him because of the word of the woman, who testified, He told me all things that [ever] I did.⁴⁰ So when the Samaritans came to him, they implored him to abide with them: and he abode there two days.⁴¹ And many more believed because of his word;⁴² and they said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of your speaking: for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.

⁴³ And after the two days he went forth from there into Galilee.⁴⁴ For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet has no honor in his own country.⁴⁵ So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went to the feast.⁴⁶ He came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.⁴⁷ When he heard that Jesus came out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and implored [him] that he would come down, and heal his son; for he was at the point of death.⁴⁸ Jesus therefore said to him, Except you see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.⁴⁹ The nobleman says to him, Sir, come down before my child dies.⁵⁰ Jesus says to him, Go your way; your son lives. The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.⁵¹ And as he was now going down, his slaves met him, saying, that his boy lived.⁵² So he inquired of them the hour when he began to amend. They said therefore to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.⁵³ So the father knew that [it was] at that hour in which Jesus said to him, Your son lives: and himself believed, and his whole house.⁵⁴ Now this is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.