John

¹Then, when the Lord¹⁰⁵⁷ learned that the Pharisees had heard, “Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John” ²(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples), ³he left Judea and departed into Galilee. ⁴Now he needed to pass through Samaria. ⁵And so, he arrived at a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph; ⁶and Jacob’s well was there. Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.^{1058 7}A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me [something] to drink.” ⁸(For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food).

⁹The Samaritan woman then said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)¹⁰⁵⁹

¹⁰Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water!”

¹¹The woman replied, “Sir,¹⁰⁶⁰ you have nothing to draw [water] with, and the well is deep! Where then do you get that living water? ¹²Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the well and drank of it himself, as did his children and his livestock?”

¹³Jesus replied, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again! ¹⁴But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. Not only this, the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

¹⁵The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or come here to draw [water]!”

¹⁶Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”

¹⁷The woman answered, “I have no husband.”

Jesus replied, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’ ¹⁸for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truthfully.”

¹⁹The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet! ²⁰Our ancestors expressed adoration¹⁰⁶¹ in this mountain,¹⁰⁶² and you [Jews] say that Jerusalem is the place where people should express adoration.”

²¹Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, a time¹⁰⁶³ is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you express adoration to the Father. ²²You express adoration to what you do not know. We express adoration to what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. ²³But the hour¹⁰⁶⁴ is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will express adoration to the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such [people] to express adoration to him. ²⁴God is a spirit,¹⁰⁶⁵ and those who express adoration to him must express adoration in spirit and truth.”

²⁵The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah¹⁰⁶⁶ is coming, (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us.”

²⁶Jesus replied, “I am he, the one who is speaking to you.” ²⁷Just then, his disciples arrived. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, yet no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?” ²⁸Then the woman left her water jar, went away into the city, and said to the people, ²⁹”Come, see a man who told me everything I have ever done! Could this be the Christ?”

³⁰The people¹⁰⁶⁷ [then] went out of the city, and were coming to him. ³¹Meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat!”

³²But he told them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”

³³The disciples then said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”

³⁴Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me, and to accomplish his work. ³⁵Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest comes?’ Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields! They are already white for the harvest! ³⁶And the one who reaps is receiving his wages and gathering fruit¹⁰⁶⁸ to eternal life; so that both the one who sows and the one who reaps may rejoice together! ³⁷For in this, the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’ ³⁸I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into [the rewards of] their labor.”

³⁹Many of the Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the word of the woman who had testified, “He told me everything that I did!” ⁴⁰For this reason, when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. So, he stayed there two days, ⁴¹and many more believed because of his word. ⁴²Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, but because we have heard for ourselves and [we] know¹⁰⁶⁹ that this is indeed the Savior of the world, the Christ.”¹⁰⁷⁰

Return to Galilee—Healing of a child: a second sign in Cana

⁴³After the two days, Jesus¹⁰⁷¹ departed from there and went into Galilee. ⁴⁴(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country). ⁴⁵When he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed¹⁰⁷² him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast. ⁴⁶Therefore, Jesus returned to Cana of Galilee where he had turned the water into wine. Now there was a certain royal official whose son was sick at Capernaum. ⁴⁷When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. ⁴⁸Jesus then said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will never believe!”

⁴⁹The nobleman replied, “Sir,¹⁰⁷³ come down before my child dies.” ⁵⁰Jesus told him, “Go on your way. Your son lives.” So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and he went on his way. ⁵¹Even as he was on the way, his slaves met him and told him the news: “Your child lives!” ⁵²He asked them the hour when the boy had begun to get better. Then they told him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour,¹⁰⁷⁴ the fever left him!” ⁵³And so, the father learned¹⁰⁷⁵ that it was at that [very] hour in which Jesus had said to him, “Your son lives.” And he believed, along with his whole household. ⁵⁴This was the second sign that Jesus performed on his return from Judea into Galilee.

The healing at the pool on the Sabbath: the third sign

1057. CT reads “Jesus”
1058. Noon
1059. This part of the verse is omitted in א* (* indicates a correction), D, and several old Latin manuscripts.
1060. Greek ku,rie (can also mean “Lord”)
1061. In John 4:19-14, proskuneo can also be translated “worship (in the broad sense),” “venerate,” “fall down in reverence,” “do obeisance” (see NT introduction regarding proskuneo).
1062. Mount Gerizim
1063. Or “an hour/the hour”
1064. Or “an hour/the hour”
1065. Or “God is Spirit/spirit”
1066. Greek Messi,aj
1067. Greek “they”
1068. Or also “crop/outcome/gain”
1069. Or “perceive/recognize/acknowledge”
1070. CT omits “the Christ” (following P66, P75, א, B)
1071. Greek “he”
1072. Or “received”
1073. Greek ku,rie (can also mean “Lord”)
1074. 1:00 pm
1075. Or “knew/realized”