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¹ When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,² (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)³ He left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.

⁴ And he must needs go through Samaria.⁵ Then he cometh to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground, that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.⁶ Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore being wearied with [his] journey, sat thus on the well: [and] it was about the sixth hour.⁷ There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith to her, Give me to drink.⁸ (For his disciples had gone to the city to buy provisions.)⁹ Then saith the woman of Samaria to him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldst have asked him, and he would have given thee living water.¹¹ The woman saith to him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?¹² Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his children, and his cattle?¹³ Jesus answered and said to her, Whoever drinketh of this water, shall thirst again:¹⁴ But whoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him, shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.¹⁵ The woman saith to him, Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, neither come hither to draw.¹⁶ Jesus saith to her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.¹⁷ The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:¹⁸ For thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband: in that thou hast spoken truth.¹⁹ The woman saith to him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.²⁰ Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.²¹ Jesus saith to her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.²² Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship, for salvation is from the Jews.²³ But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.²⁴ God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him, must worship [him] in spirit and in truth.²⁵ The woman saith to him, I know that Messiah cometh, who is called Christ; when he is come, he will tell us all things.²⁶ Jesus saith to her, I that speak to thee am [he].

²⁷ And upon this came his disciples, and marveled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?²⁸ The woman then left her waterpot, and went into the city, and saith to the men,²⁹ Come, see a man who hath told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?³⁰ Then they went out of the city, and came to him.³¹ In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.³² But he said to them, I have food to eat that ye know not of.³³ Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him [aught] to eat?³⁴ Jesus saith to them, My food is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.³⁵ Say not ye, There are yet four months, and [then] cometh harvest? behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.³⁶ And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit to life eternal: that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth, may rejoice together.³⁷ And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.³⁸ I sent you to reap that on which ye bestowed no labor: other men labored, and ye have entered into their labors.³⁹ And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, who testified, He told me all that ever I did.⁴⁰ So when the Samaritans had come to him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.⁴¹ And many more believed, because of his own word;⁴² And said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard [him] ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.

⁴³ Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.⁴⁴ For Jesus himself testified that a prophet hath no honor in his own country.⁴⁵ Then when he had come into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went to the feast.⁴⁶ So Jesus came again into 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 had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.⁴⁸ Then said Jesus to him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.⁴⁹ The nobleman saith to him, Sir, come down ere my child dieth.⁵⁰ Jesus saith to him, Go; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken to him, and he departed.⁵¹ And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told [him], saying, Thy son liveth.⁵² Then he inquired of them the hour when he began to amend: and they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.⁵³ So the father knew that [it was] at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, Thy son liveth: and he himself believed, and his whole house.⁵⁴ This [is] again the second miracle [that] Jesus performed, when he had come from Judea into Galilee.