King James Version

1 When Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was making and baptizing more disciples than John— 2 And indeed, Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples. 3 He left Judea and went back to Galilee. 4 And it was necessary for him to pass through Samaria. 5 So He comes to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 And there was a well of Jacob. Therefore, Jesus, being wearied from the journey, was sitting thus by the well; it was about the sixth hour. 7 A woman from Samaria comes 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 woman of Samaria said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samarian woman?" For Jews do not associate 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 a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." 11 The woman says to him, "Lord, you have neither a bucket and the well is deep; from where then do you have the living water?" 12 "Are you not greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, and his sons and his livestock?" 13 Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again." 14 Whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again, but the water that I give him will become in him a spring of water gushing up to eternal life. 15 The woman says to him, "Lord, give me this water, so that I may not thirst nor come here to draw." 16 He said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here." 17 The woman answered and said to him, "I do not have a husband." Jesus said to her, "You have said well that you do not have a husband." 18 For you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly. 19 The woman says to him, "Lord, I perceive that you are a prophet." 20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship. 21 Jesus said to her, "Believe me, woman, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem worship the Father." 22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these 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 the Messiah is coming, who is called Christ; when that one comes, he will declare to us all things." 26 Jesus said to her, "I am the one speaking to you." 27 And upon this, his disciples came, and they were amazed that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, "What are you seeking?" or "What are you saying with her?" 28 Therefore, the woman left her water jar and went into the city and said to the people: 29 Come, see a man who told me all things that I did; is this not the Christ? 30 They went out of the city and were coming to him. 31 Meanwhile, his disciples were asking him, saying, "Rabbi, eat." 32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you do not know about." 33 Then the disciples said to one another, "Has anyone brought him something to eat?" 34 Jesus says to them, "My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to finish his work." 35 Do you not say, "There are yet four months until the harvest"? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and see that the fields are white for harvest; already. 36 The one who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows may rejoice together with the one who reaps. 37 For in this, the word is true that one is the sower and another is the reaper. 38 I sent you to reap what you did not labor for; others have labored, and you have entered into their toil. 39 And from that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman testifying that he told me all that I 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 because of his word. 42 They said to the woman, "We no longer believe because of your speech; for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world." 43 And after two days he went out from there into Galilee. 44 For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. 45 When he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also had come to the feast. 46 He came again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son was ill in Capernaum. 47 This man, having heard that Jesus was coming from Judea into Galilee, went to Him and asked Him to come down and heal his son, for he was about to die. 48 Jesus said to him, "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe." 49 The royal official said to him, "Lord, come down before my child dies." 50 Jesus said to him, "Go; your son lives." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. 51 And now as he was descending, his servants met him, saying that his boy is alive. 52 He inquired then about the hour when he had been at his best. They said to him that yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. 53 So the father knew that at that hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives," and he himself believed and his whole household. 54 This, again, is the second sign that Jesus performed when he came from Judea to Galilee.