John 4

1 When the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard He made more disciples and baptized more than John,

 

2 {Though Jesus Himself did not baptize but His disciples did},

 

3 He left Judea and departed for Galilee.

 

4 And He needed to go through Samaria (to get there), (which was the most direct route, but a route which the Pharisees refused to take, but they took a much longer way to avoid contact with the Samaritans).

 

5 Then He came to the city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph (as an inheritance).

 

6 Now Jacob's well was there. Therefore, Jesus being tired from His journey sat on the well: and it was about the noon hour.

 

7 There came a woman from Samaritan to draw water from the well: Jesus said to her; give Me water to drink.

 

8 {For His disciples were gone away to the city to buy food}.

 

9 Then the Samaritan woman said to Him, why do you speak with me seeing I am a woman and also a Samaritan whom the Jews have no dealings with?

 

10 Jesus answered and said to her If you knew the gift of God (which is the life the Father desires to serve you with), and the One who said to you, Give me to drink; you would have asked of Him, and He would have given you living water (from above).

 

11 The woman said to Him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: where do you have this living water?

 

12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well, and that he and all his children and cattle drank of?

 

13 Jesus answered and said to her, whoever drinks the water of this (earthly) well will surely thirst again:

 

14 But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him, (will be fully satisfied and) will never thirst (again); because the water that I will give him will be inside of him (the incorruptible seed of the Father’s life) an endless well of water springing up unto everlasting life.

 

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

 

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

 

17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. And Jesus said to her, you have spoken correctly in saying, I have no husband:

 

18 For you have had five husbands, and the one who you are with now is not your husband: in that you have spoken correctly.

 

19 The woman said to Him, Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet (One who speaks the oracles of God).

 

20 Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, and you (Jews) say that Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship (God).

 

21 Jesus said to her, Woman, believe Me (and My words), there is coming a time, when you will neither need to be in this mountain, nor at Jerusalem to worship the Father.

 

22 You worship what you do not (yet) know (or understand); we (Jews) know what we worship, for (the oracles pertaining to) salvation were given to the Jews (from God through Moses in the law).

 

23 But the hour is coming, and now is (at hand), when the true worshipers will worship the Father (calling upon His name) in spirit (born from the Word of life in their inner man) and (being persuaded of the) truth (He has spoken about them in the Son); for the Father (has ever desired and) is seeking such to worship Him (so that He might serve them with the Spirit of His life).

 

24 God is Spirit (the Spirit of life). And those who (desire to) worship Him must (see Him as Father and) worship Him (crying “Abba Father” allowing Him to serve them with His life) in spirit and truth.

 

25 The woman said to Him, I know that Messiah is coming, who is called the Christ (the anointed One of God who will speak on His behalf): and when He comes, He will tell us all things (and restore all things).

 

26 Jesus said to her, I AM He, the One that is speaking to you.

 

27 And just then His disciples returned, and were amazed to find Him talking with the woman: yet none of them asked Him, what do you want from her? or, why did you talk with her?

 

28 The woman then left her water pot, and went her way, (forsaking the way she had always tried to find satisfaction in her life, now seeing a new and living way) going into the city, she said to the men, (some of the very men she had known),

 

29 Come! See a man, who told me all the things that I ever did: (pertaining to the way unto life that never satisfied my heart) surely, this is the Christ? (The word of life that reveals the Father’s love and desire to serve me with His everlasting life, the only life that is able to satisfy the heart, so that you thirst no more).

 

30 Then (upon hearing her testimony) they went out of the city and came to (hear) Him.

 

31 In the meantime, the disciples tried to persuade Him to eat.

 

32 But He said unto them, I have food to eat (that does not perish but ever strengthens and satisfies Me) that you do not (yet) know of.

 

33 Therefore the disciples (wondered and) said to each other, has any man brought Him something to eat?

 

34 Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of the Father who has sent Me and (My desire is) to finish His work (of eternal life).

 

35 Do you not look at the fields with the natural eye and say that there are still four months until harvest? Behold, I say to you, look (with the eyes of the Spirit) upon the fields of this world, how that men’s hearts are already ripe (hungering for the life they have always desired and which the Father has designed for them) and are ready for the harvest.

 

36 And so the one who reaps, receives the harvest of that life (with great joy) and another gathers the (harvest) fruit unto eternal life: so that both he that ministers (the Word of life) and he that reaps (and shares in that life) may rejoice together (for it is God who has provided both the seed and the increase).

 

37 And here is how we can see this saying is true, that one ministers and another one gathers:

 

38 That just as (My Father has sent Me) I send you to gather upon something which you have bestowed no work: (And just as we enter into His good work) so other men worked and you entered into their work.

 

39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the testimony of the woman, who testified saying, He told me all that ever I did. (Pertaining to the way unto life that is able to satisfy so that a man might thirst no more).

 

40 So when the Samaritans had come and heard Him, they desired and asked Him to stay with them: and He stayed with them for two (more) days. 

 

41 And many more (were persuaded and) believed because of Jesus' own word;

 

42 And they said to the woman, now we do not (just) believe because of your testimony: but because we have heard Him ourselves and know and believe (in our hearts) that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior (and light) of the world.

 

43 Now after two days He departed from there and went into Galilee.

 

44 For Jesus Himself testified, that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

 

45 Then when He came into Galilee, the Galileans received Him, because they saw all the things that He had done in Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went to the feast.

 

46 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where He turned the water into wine. And there was a certain Jewish royal official, whose son was sick at Capernaum.

 

47 When he heard that Jesus had come from Judaea into Galilee, he went to Him desiring that He would come and heal his son who was near the point of death. 

 

48 Then Jesus said to him and the other Jews present, unless you see signs, wonders, (and miracles) you will not believe.

 

49 The royal official said to Him, Sir, come heal my child before he dies.

 

50 Jesus said to him, go on your way; your son lives. And the man believed the word Jesus spoke and went on his way.

 

51 And as he was on his way down the road, his servants met him, and told him, saying, “Your son lives”.

 

52 And he asked them what hour it was when his son began to get better. And they said to him, yesterday at an hour past noon the fever left him.

 

53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said to him, your son lives: and he believed (in his own heart), and his entire house.

 

54 This was the second (sign, wonder, and) miracle that Jesus performed when He had come out of Judaea into Galilee.