Jesus Speaks to a Samaritan Woman at Noon
John 4Now when Jesus learned the Pharisees had heard that he was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples), he left Judea and departed for Galilee. He needed to pass through Samaria. So he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there. Jesus was tired from his journey, so he sat down by the well. It was about noon.+4:6 the sixth hour
A woman of Samaria came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” (His disciples had gone into the city to buy food.)
So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you, a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
Jesus 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.”
The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?”
Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again. Indeed, the water that I will give them will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”
The woman said to him, “Lord, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty and have to come all the way here to draw water.”
Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
The woman answered, “I have no husband.”
Jesus said to her, “You said correctly, ‘I have no husband,’ for you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”
The woman said to him, “Lord, I discern that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, but y’all Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”
Jesus replied, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when y’all will worship the Father neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem. Y’all worship what y’all don’t know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming and is present, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be ʜɪꜱ worshipers. God is spirit, and those who worship ʜɪᴍ must worship in spirit and truth.”
The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming, the one who is called Christ. When he comes, he will declare all things to us.”
Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.”
Just then, his disciples returned, and they marveled that he was speaking with a woman. But no one asked, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why are you speaking with her?” So the woman left her water pot, went away into the city, and said to the humans, “Come y’all, see a human who told me everything that I have done. Can this be the Christ?” They left from the city and began coming to him.
Meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat something.”
But he said to them, “I have food to eat that y’all don’t know about.”
So the disciples said to one another, “Did someone bring him something to eat?”
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of ʜɪᴍ who sent me and to accomplish ʜɪꜱ work. Don’t y’all say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest?’ Look! I am telling y’all, lift up your* eyes and see that the fields are white for harvest already. The one who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that both the one who sows and the one who reaps may rejoice together. For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ I sent y’all to reap what y’all didn’t work for. Others have started the work, and y’all have benefited from their labor.”
The Samaritans Believe the Woman’s Story
Many of the Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified, “He told me everything that I ever did.” So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to remain with them. He remained there two days, and many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, “Now we believe not just because of what you said. Now we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”
After the two days he departed from there for Galilee. (Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) So when he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans received him. They had seen everything that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast.
Sign #2: Jesus Heals a Royal Official’s Son
Therefore Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee where he made the water into wine. There was a certain royal official whose son was sick at Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless y’all see signs and wonders, y’all just won’t believe.”
The royal official said to him, “Lord, you must come down before my child dies.”
Jesus said to him, “You must go now. Your son will live.” The man believed Jesus’s words and left. As he was on his way down, his servants met him and told him that his boy was living. So he asked them the hour when he started getting better. They said to him, “Yesterday at one in the afternoon,+4:52 seventh hour the fever left him.” So the father knew that it was at that very time when Jesus said to him, “Your son will live.” He believed, as did his whole house. This is the second sign that Jesus did, after coming from Judea into Galilee.