John 4

1Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than JohnCross-references: Luke 1:76 · Luke 2:11 · Luke 19:31 · Luke 19:34 · John 3:22 · John 3:26 · +6 more

2(although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples),Cross-references: Acts 10:48 · 1Cor 1:13

3he left Judea and departed into Galilee.Cross-references: Matt 10:23 · Mark 3:7 · John 1:43 · John 2:11 · John 3:22 · John 3:32 · +2 more

4He needed to pass through Samaria.Cross-references: Matt 10:5 · Luke 2:49 · Luke 9:51 · Luke 17:11

5So he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.Cross-references: Gen 33:19 · Gen 48:22 · Josh 24:32 · John 4:12

6Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.Cross-references: Matt 4:2 · Matt 8:24 · Matt 27:45 · Luke 2:7 · Luke 9:58 · John 11:9 · +3 more

7A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”Cross-references: Gen 24:43 · 2Sam 23:15 · 1Ki 17:10 · Matt 10:42 · John 4:10 · John 19:28

8For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.Cross-references: Luke 9:13 · John 4:5 · John 4:39 · John 6:5

9The Samaritan woman therefore 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.)Cross-references: 2Ki 17:24 · Ezra 4:1 · Neh 4:1 · Matt 10:5 · Luke 9:52 · Luke 10:33 · +5 more

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.”Cross-references: Ex 17:6 · 2Chr 33:12 · 2Chr 33:18 · Ps 10:17 · Ps 36:8 · Ps 46:4 · +40 more

11The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water?Cross-references: John 3:4 · 1Cor 2:14

12Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?”Cross-references: Isa 53:2 · Matt 12:42 · John 4:6 · John 8:53 · Heb 3:3

13Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,Cross-references: Isa 65:13 · Luke 16:24 · John 6:27 · John 6:49

14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”Cross-references: Isa 49:10 · Matt 25:46 · John 6:35 · John 6:58 · John 7:38 · John 10:10 · +12 more

15The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.”Cross-references: Ps 4:6 · John 6:26 · John 6:34 · John 17:2 · Rom 6:23 · Rom 8:5 · +3 more

16Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”Cross-references: John 1:42 · John 1:47 · John 2:24 · John 4:18 · John 21:17 · Heb 4:13 · +1 more

17The woman answered, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’

18for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.”Cross-references: Gen 20:3 · Gen 34:2 · Gen 34:7 · Gen 34:31 · Num 5:29 · Ruth 4:10 · +6 more

19The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.Cross-references: 2Ki 5:26 · 2Ki 6:12 · Matt 21:11 · Luke 7:16 · Luke 7:39 · Luke 24:19 · +6 more

20Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”Cross-references: Gen 12:6 · Gen 33:18 · Deut 11:29 · Deut 12:5 · Deut 27:12 · Josh 8:33 · +12 more

21Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.Cross-references: Ezek 14:3 · Ezek 20:3 · Mal 1:11 · Matt 18:20 · Matt 28:19 · Luke 21:5 · +12 more

22You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.Cross-references: Gen 49:10 · 2Ki 17:27 · 2Chr 13:10 · Ezra 4:2 · Ps 68:20 · Ps 147:19 · +12 more

23But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.Cross-references: Josh 24:14 · 1Sam 12:24 · 1Chr 29:17 · Ps 17:1 · Ps 32:2 · Ps 51:6 · +31 more

24God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”Cross-references: 1Sam 16:7 · Ps 50:13 · Ps 50:23 · Ps 51:17 · Ps 66:18 · Isa 57:15 · +5 more

25The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things.”Cross-references: Deut 18:15 · Dan 9:24 · Matt 1:16 · John 1:41 · John 1:49 · John 4:29 · +2 more

26Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.”Cross-references: Matt 16:20 · Matt 20:15 · Matt 26:63 · Mark 14:61 · Luke 13:30 · John 8:24 · +2 more

27Just then, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?”Cross-references: Luke 7:39 · John 4:8

28So the woman left her water pot, went away into the city, and said to the people,Cross-references: Matt 28:8 · Mark 16:8 · Luke 24:9 · Luke 24:33 · John 4:7

29“Come, see a man who told me everything that I have done. Can this be the Christ?”Cross-references: Matt 12:23 · John 1:41 · John 4:17 · John 4:25 · John 7:26 · John 7:31 · +2 more

30They went out of the city, and were coming to him.Cross-references: Isa 60:8 · Matt 2:1 · Matt 8:11 · Matt 11:20 · Matt 12:40 · Matt 20:16 · +6 more

31In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”Cross-references: Gen 24:33 · Matt 23:7 · John 1:38 · Acts 16:30

32But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”Cross-references: Job 23:12 · Ps 25:14 · Ps 63:5 · Ps 119:103 · Prov 14:10 · Prov 18:20 · +5 more

33The disciples therefore said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”Cross-references: Matt 16:6 · Luke 9:45

34Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.Cross-references: Job 23:12 · Ps 40:8 · Isa 61:1 · Matt 26:39 · Luke 15:4 · Luke 15:10 · +10 more

35Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest’? Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.Cross-references: Matt 9:37 · Luke 10:2 · John 4:30

36He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.Cross-references: Prov 11:30 · Dan 12:3 · Rom 1:13 · Rom 6:22 · 1Cor 3:5 · 1Cor 9:19 · +5 more

37For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’Cross-references: Judg 6:3 · Job 31:8 · Mic 6:15 · Luke 19:21

38I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”Cross-references: 2Chr 36:15 · Jer 44:4 · Matt 3:1 · Matt 4:23 · Matt 11:8 · John 1:7 · +10 more

39From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I have done.”Cross-references: John 4:5 · John 4:29 · John 4:42 · John 10:41 · John 11:45

40So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.Cross-references: Gen 32:26 · Prov 4:13 · Song 3:4 · Jer 14:8 · Luke 8:38 · Luke 10:39 · +5 more

41Many more believed because of his word.Cross-references: Gen 49:10 · Matt 7:28 · Luke 4:32 · John 6:63 · John 7:46 · Acts 1:8 · +5 more

42They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”Cross-references: Isa 45:22 · Isa 52:10 · Matt 1:21 · Luke 2:10 · Luke 2:32 · John 1:29 · +13 more

43After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee.Cross-references: Matt 4:13 · Matt 15:21 · Mark 7:27 · John 1:42 · John 4:40 · John 4:46 · +1 more

44For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.Cross-references: Matt 13:57 · Mark 6:4 · Luke 4:24

45So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast.Cross-references: Deut 16:16 · Matt 4:23 · Luke 2:42 · Luke 8:40 · Luke 9:53 · John 2:13 · +2 more

46Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.Cross-references: Josh 19:28 · Ps 50:15 · Ps 78:34 · Hos 5:15 · Matt 9:18 · Matt 15:22 · +5 more

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.Cross-references: Ps 46:1 · Mark 2:1 · Mark 6:55 · Mark 10:47 · Luke 7:6 · Luke 8:41 · +5 more

48Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.”Cross-references: Num 14:11 · Dan 4:2 · Dan 6:27 · Matt 16:1 · Matt 24:24 · Matt 27:42 · +22 more

49The nobleman said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”Cross-references: Ps 40:17 · Ps 88:10 · Mark 5:23 · Mark 5:35

50Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.Cross-references: 1Ki 17:13 · Matt 8:13 · Mark 7:29 · Mark 9:23 · Luke 17:14 · John 11:40 · +3 more

51As he was going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!”Cross-references: 1Ki 17:23 · John 4:50 · John 4:53

52So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him.”

53So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” He believed, as did his whole house.Cross-references: Ps 33:9 · Ps 107:20 · Matt 8:8 · Matt 8:13 · Luke 19:9 · Acts 2:39 · +4 more

54This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.Cross-references: John 2:1 · John 4:45