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    John 4

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    A woman comes to Jacob’s well for water, leaves her water jar behind, and hurries back to town with a question about the Christ. The chapter never says why the jar stays put, which is a splendidly quiet mystery amid all the declarations.

    The well, the jar, and the answervv. 1–30

    Jesus leaves Judea for Galilee and passes through Samaria, arriving at Sychar tired enough to sit by Jacob’s well. A Samaritan woman comes for water, and an ordinary request becomes a conversation about living water, husbands, worship, and the Messiah. Jesus tells her plainly who he is; the disciples return, surprised at the conversation but not inquisitive enough to ask about it. The woman leaves her jar, returns to town, and sends the townspeople towards him.

    Food no one brought, harvest no one plantedvv. 31–42

    The disciples urge Jesus to eat, but he speaks of food they do not know about; they promptly wonder whether somebody has brought him some. Jesus explains that his food is to do the will of the one who sent him, then points towards a harvest whose labour has been divided between sowers and reapers. Many Samaritans believe because of the woman’s testimony, and more believe after hearing Jesus himself. They ask him to stay, and he remains two days—a remarkably successful visit involving neither jar nor shopping list.

    The hometown welcome and the distant healingvv. 43–54

    After two days Jesus goes to Galilee, where the Galileans welcome him despite the saying that a prophet has no honour in his own hometown. In Cana, a royal official begs him to come to Capernaum for his dying son. Jesus says the son will live, and the official departs without bringing him along. On the road, servants meet the father with news that the fever left at the very hour Jesus spoke. The father and his household believe; the chapter calls this the second sign performed after Jesus came from Judea into Galilee.

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    1. John 4:1When Jesus realized that the Pharisees were aware He was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John

    2. John 4:2(although it was not Jesus who baptized, but His disciples),

    3. John 4:3He left Judea and returned to Galilee.

    4. John 4:4Now He had to pass through Samaria.

    5. John 4:5So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

    6. John 4:6Since Jacob’s well was there, Jesus, weary from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

    7. John 4:7When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”

    8. John 4:8(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

    9. John 4:9“You are a Jew,” said the woman. “How can You ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

    10. John 4:10Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

    11. John 4:11“Sir,” the woman replied, “You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then will You get this living water?

    12. John 4:12Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock?”

    13. John 4:13Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.

    14. John 4:14But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”

    15. John 4:15The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water so that I will not get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

    16. John 4:16Jesus told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”

    17. John 4:17“I have no husband,” the woman replied. Jesus said to her, “You are correct to say that you have no husband.

    18. John 4:18In fact, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. You have spoken truthfully.”

    19. John 4:19“Sir,” the woman said, “I see that You are a prophet.

    20. John 4:20Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.”

    21. John 4:21“Believe Me, woman,” Jesus replied, “a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

    22. John 4:22You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.

    23. John 4:23But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him.

    24. John 4:24God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.”

    25. John 4:25The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When He comes, He will explain everything to us.”

    26. John 4:26Jesus answered, “I who speak to you am He.”

    27. John 4:27Just then His disciples returned and were surprised that He was speaking with a woman. But no one asked Him, “What do You want from her?” or “Why are You talking with her?”

    28. John 4:28Then the woman left her water jar, went back into the town, and said to the people,

    29. John 4:29“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”

    30. John 4:30So they left the town and made their way toward Jesus.

    31. John 4:31Meanwhile the disciples urged Him, “Rabbi, eat something.”

    32. John 4:32But He told them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”

    33. John 4:33So the disciples asked one another, “Could someone have brought Him food?”

    34. John 4:34Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.

    35. John 4:35Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.

    36. John 4:36Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

    37. John 4:37For in this case the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true.

    38. John 4:38I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the hard work, and now you have taken up their labor.”

    39. John 4:39Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”

    40. John 4:40So when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed two days.

    41. John 4:41And many more believed because of His message.

    42. John 4:42They said to the woman, “We now believe not only because of your words; we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man truly is the Savior of the world.”

    43. John 4:43After two days, Jesus left for Galilee.

    44. John 4:44Now He Himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown.

    45. John 4:45Yet when He arrived, the Galileans welcomed Him. They had seen all the great things He had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they had gone there as well.

    46. John 4:46So once again He came to Cana in Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum.

    47. John 4:47When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged Him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die.

    48. John 4:48Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe.”

    49. John 4:49“Sir,” the official said, “come down before my child dies.”

    50. John 4:50“Go,” said Jesus. “Your son will live.” The man took Jesus at His word and departed.

    51. John 4:51And while he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was alive.

    52. John 4:52So he inquired as to the hour when his son had recovered, and they told him, “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour.”

    53. John 4:53Then the father realized that this was the very hour in which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” And he and all his household believed.

    54. John 4:54This was now the second sign that Jesus performed after coming from Judea into Galilee.

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    • 242 Corinthians 3:17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
    • 14John 7:38–39Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”
    • 24Matthew 15:8–9‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.
    • 10John 4:14But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
    • 24Philippians 3:3For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—
    • 14John 6:35Jesus answered, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to Me will never hunger, and whoever believes in Me will never thirst.
    • 10Revelation 7:17For the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd. ‘He will lead them to springs of living water,’ and ‘God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.’”
    • 10John 7:37–39On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and called out in a loud voice, “If anyone is thirsty, let him come to Me and drink.
    • 10Isaiah 44:3For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and currents on the dry ground. I will pour out My Spirit on your descendants, and My blessing on your offspring.
    • 24Psalms 51:17The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
    • 10Revelation 21:6And He told me, “It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To the thirsty I will give freely from the spring of the water of life.
    • 14Isaiah 49:10They will not hunger or thirst, nor will scorching heat or sun beat down on them. For He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.
    • 10Psalms 36:8–9They feast on the abundance of Your house, and You give them drink from Your river of delights.
    • 10John 3:16For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that everyone who believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
    • 24Isaiah 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
    • 14Revelation 7:16‘Never again will they hunger, and never will they thirst; nor will the sun beat down upon them, nor any scorching heat.’

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