John 4 - English Standard Version (ESV)

Jesus and the Woman of Samaria

4 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and ^(A)baptizing more disciples than John ² (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), ³ he left Judea and departed ^(B)again for Galilee. ^{4 (C)}And he had to pass through Samaria. ⁵ So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field ^(D)that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ⁶ Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, ^(E)wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.^[a]

⁷ A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, ^(F)“Give me a drink.” ⁸ (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) ⁹ The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (^(G)For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) ¹⁰ Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you ^(H)living water.” ¹¹ The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? ^{12 (I)}Are you greater than our father Jacob? ^(J)He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” ¹³ Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴ but ^(K)whoever drinks of the water that I will give him ^(L)will never be thirsty again.^[b] The water that I will give him will become ^(M)in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” ¹⁵ The woman said to him, “Sir, ^(N)give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”

¹⁶ Jesus said to her, “Go, ^(O)call your husband, and come here.” ¹⁷ The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; ¹⁸ for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” ¹⁹ The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that ^(P)you are ^(Q)a prophet. ^{20 (R)}Our fathers worshiped on ^(S)this mountain, but you say that ^(T)in Jerusalem is ^(U)the place where people ought to worship.” ²¹ Jesus said to her, ^(V)“Woman, believe me, ^(W)the hour is coming when ^(X)neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. ^{22 (Y)}You worship what you do not know; ^(Z)we worship what we know, for ^(AA)salvation is ^(AB)from the Jews. ²³ But ^(AC)the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father ^(AD)in spirit and ^(AE)truth, for the Father ^(AF)is seeking such people 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 ^(AG)Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, ^(AH)he will tell us all things.” ²⁶ Jesus said to her, ^(AI)“I who speak to you am he.”

²⁷ Just then ^(AJ)his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” ²⁸ So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, ²⁹ “Come, see a man ^(AK)who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” ³⁰ They went out of the town and were coming to him.

³¹ Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, ^(AL)“Rabbi, eat.” ³² But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” ³³ So the disciples said to one another, ^(AM)“Has anyone brought him something to eat?” ³⁴ Jesus said to them, ^(AN)“My food is ^(AO)to do the will of him who sent me and ^(AP)to accomplish his work. ³⁵ Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that ^(AQ)the fields are white for harvest. ³⁶ Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that ^(AR)sower and ^(AS)reaper ^(AT)may rejoice together. ³⁷ For here the saying holds true, ^(AU)‘One sows and another reaps.’ ³⁸ I sent you to reap ^(AV)that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, ^(AW)and you have entered into their labor.”

³⁹ Many Samaritans ^(AX)from that town believed in him ^(AY)because of ^(AZ)the woman's testimony, “He told me all that I ever 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 ^(BA)because of his word. ⁴² They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, ^(BB)and we know that this is indeed ^(BC)the Savior ^(BD)of the world.”

⁴³ After ^(BE)the two days he departed for Galilee. ⁴⁴ (For Jesus himself had testified ^(BF)that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.) ⁴⁵ So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, ^(BG)having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the feast. For ^(BH)they too had gone to the feast.

Jesus Heals an Official's Son

⁴⁶ So he came again to ^(BI)Cana in Galilee, ^(BJ)where he had made the water wine. And at Capernaum there was an official whose son was ill. ⁴⁷ When this man heard that Jesus ^(BK)had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. ⁴⁸ So Jesus said to him, ^(BL)“Unless you^[c] see signs and wonders you will not believe.” ⁴⁹ The official said to him, “Sir, come down ^(BM)before my child dies.” ⁵⁰ Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and went on his way. ⁵¹ As he was going down, his servants^[d] met him and told him that his son was recovering. ⁵² So he asked them the hour when he began to get better, and they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour^[e] the fever left him.” ⁵³ The father knew that was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” And he himself believed, ^(BN)and all his household. ^{54 (BO)}This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.

Footnotes

1. John 4:6 That is, about noon
2. John 4:14 Greek forever
3. John 4:48 The Greek for you is plural; twice in this verse
4. John 4:51 Or bondservants
5. John 4:52 That is, at 1 p.m.

Cross references

1. John 4:1 : ch. 3:22, 26
2. John 4:3 : ch. 2:11, 12
3. John 4:4 : [Luke 13:33]
4. John 4:5 : ver. 12; Gen. 33:19; 48:22; Josh. 24:32
5. John 4:6 : ch. 19:28; [Matt. 4:2; 8:24; 21:18]
6. John 4:7 : [See ver. 6 above]; ch. 19:28; [Matt. 4:2; 8:24; 21:18]
7. John 4:9 : Luke 9:53; [ch. 8:48; Ezra 4:3, 10]; See Matt. 10:5
8. John 4:10 : ch. 7:38; Jer. 2:13; 17:13
9. John 4:12 : [ch. 8:53]
10. John 4:12 : ver. 5
11. John 4:14 : [ch. 6:35, 51, 58; 7:37]
12. John 4:14 : [Isa. 49:10; Rev. 7:16]
13. John 4:14 : ch. 7:38
14. John 4:15 : [ch. 6:34]
15. John 4:16 : ch. 16:8
16. John 4:19 : ch. 9:17; [ch. 6:14]
17. John 4:19 : Luke 7:16, 39; See Matt. 21:11
18. John 4:20 : Gen. 12:6, 7; 33:18, 20; Deut. 11:29; 27:12; Josh. 8:33
19. John 4:20 : Judg. 9:7
20. John 4:20 : See Deut. 12:5
21. John 4:20 : [ch. 11:48]
22. John 4:21 : ch. 2:4
23. John 4:21 : ver. 23; ch. 5:25, 28; 16:2, 25, 32
24. John 4:21 : Zeph. 2:11; Mal. 1:11; 1 Tim. 2:8
25. John 4:22 : [2 Kgs. 17:28-34; Acts 17:23]
26. John 4:22 : Ps. 147:19, 20; Isa. 2:3; Rom. 3:1, 2; 9:4, 5
27. John 4:22 : Ps. 147:19, 20; Isa. 2:3; Rom. 3:1, 2; 9:4, 5
28. John 4:22 : Matt. 2:4, 5; Acts 13:23; Rom. 11:26
29. John 4:23 : ver. 21
30. John 4:23 : [Rom. 8:15; Eph. 2:18; 6:18; Phil. 3:3]
31. John 4:23 : Ps. 145:18; [ch. 1:17]
32. John 4:23 : [ch. 6:44]
33. John 4:25 : See ch. 1:41
34. John 4:25 : Deut. 18:18; [ver. 29]
35. John 4:26 : ch. 9:35-37
36. John 4:27 : ver. 8
37. John 4:29 : ver. 17, 18; [ver. 25]
38. John 4:31 : See ch. 1:38
39. John 4:33 : [ver. 11, 15; ch. 3:4; 6:34, 52]
40. John 4:34 : [Job 23:12]
41. John 4:34 : ch. 5:30; 6:38; 14:31
42. John 4:34 : ch. 5:36; 17:4
43. John 4:35 : Matt. 9:37; Luke 10:2; [ver. 25, 30]
44. John 4:36 : [Matt. 13:37; Mark 4:14]
45. John 4:36 : ver. 38
46. John 4:36 : Isa. 9:3; [Amos 9:13]
47. John 4:37 : [Job 31:8]
48. John 4:38 : Josh. 24:13
49. John 4:38 : [Acts 8:5-17, 25]
50. John 4:39 : ver. 5, 8
51. John 4:39 : [ch. 17:20]
52. John 4:39 : ver. 29
53. John 4:41 : ch. 8:30
54. John 4:42 : [1 John 5:20]
55. John 4:42 : 1 John 4:14; [ch. 3:17; 12:47; 1 Tim. 4:10]
56. John 4:42 : See ch. 1:29
57. John 4:43 : ver. 40
58. John 4:44 : See Matt. 13:57
59. John 4:45 : ch. 2:23; 3:2
60. John 4:45 : ver. 20
61. John 4:46 : ch. 2:1
62. John 4:46 : ch. 2:9
63. John 4:47 : ver. 3, 54
64. John 4:48 : ch. 2:18; 6:30; [ch. 20:29]
65. John 4:49 : [ch. 11:21, 32; Mark 5:35; Luke 8:49]
66. John 4:53 : Acts 16:34; 18:8; See Acts 11:14
67. John 4:54 : [ch. 2:11 with ver. 45, 46]