¹ When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus makes and baptises more disciples than John

² (however, Jesus himself did not baptise, but his disciples),

³ he left Judaea and went away again unto Galilee.

⁴ And he must needs pass through Samaria.

⁵ He comes therefore to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near to the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

⁶ Now a fountain of Jacob's was there; Jesus therefore, being wearied with the way he had come, sat just as he was at the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.

⁷ A woman comes out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus says to her, Give me to drink

⁸ (for his disciples had gone away into the city that they might buy provisions).

⁹ The Samaritan woman therefore says to him, How dost thou, being a Jew, ask to drink of me who am a Samaritan woman? for Jews have no intercourse with Samaritans.

¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her, If thou knewest the gift of¹ God, and who it is that says to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

1. 4.10 Elohim

¹¹ The woman says to him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then hast thou the living water?

¹² Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?

¹³ Jesus answered and said to her, Every one who drinks of this water shall thirst again;

¹⁴ but whosoever drinks of the water which I shall give him shall never thirst for ever, but the water which I shall give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into eternal life.

¹⁵ The woman says to him, Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst nor come here to draw.

¹⁶ Jesus says to her, Go, call thy husband, and come here.

¹⁷ The woman answered and said, I have not a husband. Jesus says to her, Thou hast well said, I have not a husband;

¹⁸ for thou hast had five husbands, and he whom now thou hast is not thy husband: this thou hast spoken truly.

¹⁹ The woman says to him, Sir, I see that thou art a prophet.

²⁰ Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship.

²¹ Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, [the] hour is coming when ye shall neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem worship the Father.

²² Ye worship ye know not what; we worship what we know, for salvation is of the Jews.

²³ But [the] hour is coming and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for also the Father seeks such as his worshippers.

^{24 1}God [is] a spirit; and they who worship him must worship [him] in spirit and truth.

1. 4.24 Elohim

²⁵ The woman says to him, I know that Messias is coming, who is called Christ; when he comes he will tell us all things.

²⁶ Jesus says to her, I who speak to thee am [he].

²⁷ And upon this came his disciples, and wondered that he spoke with a woman; yet no one said, What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her?

²⁸ The woman then left her waterpot and went away into the city, and says to the men,

²⁹ Come, see a man who told me all things I had ever done: is not he the Christ?

³⁰ They went out of the city and came to him.

³¹ But meanwhile the disciples asked him saying, Rabbi, eat.

³² But he said to them, I have food to eat which ye do not know.

³³ The disciples therefore said to one another, Has any one brought him [anything] to eat?

³⁴ Jesus says to them, My food is that I should do the will of him that has sent me, and that I should finish his work.

³⁵ Do not ye say, that there are yet four months and the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, for they are already white to harvest.

³⁶ He that reaps receives wages and gathers fruit unto life eternal, that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together.

³⁷ For in this is [verified] the true saying, It is one who sows and another who reaps.

³⁸ I have sent you to reap that on which ye have not laboured; others have laboured, and ye have entered into their labours.

³⁹ But many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman who bore witness, He told me all things that I had ever done.

⁴⁰ When therefore the Samaritans came to him they asked him to abide with them, and he abode there two days.

⁴¹ And more a great deal believed on account of his word;

⁴² and they said to the woman, [It is] no longer on account of thy saying that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.

⁴³ But after the two days he went forth thence and went away into Galilee,

⁴⁴ for Jesus himself bore witness that a prophet has no honour in his own country.

⁴⁵ When therefore he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem during 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 courtier in Capernaum whose son was sick.

⁴⁷ He, having heard that Jesus had come out of Judaea into Galilee, went to him and asked [him] that he would come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

⁴⁸ Jesus therefore said to him, Unless ye see signs and wonders ye will not believe.

⁴⁹ The courtier says to him, Sir, come down ere my child die.

⁵⁰ Jesus says to him, Go, thy son lives. And the man believed the word which Jesus said to him, and went his way.

⁵¹ But already, as he was going down, his servants met him and brought [him] word saying, Thy child lives.

⁵² He inquired therefore from them the hour at which he got better. And they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.

⁵³ The father therefore knew that [it was] in that hour in which Jesus said to him, Thy son lives; and he believed, himself and his whole house.

⁵⁴ This second sign again did Jesus, being come out of Judaea into Galilee.