JESUS AND
THE WOMAN AT THE WELL John 4:3-42 John
4 3 He left 4 But He needed to go through 5 So He came to a city of 6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore,
being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth
hour. 7 A woman of 8 For His disciples had gone away into the
city to buy food. 9 Then the woman of 10 Jesus answered and said to 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." 11 The woman said to Him, "Sir, You have
nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You
get that living water? 12 "Are You
greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself,
as well as his sons and his livestock?" 13 Jesus answered and said to her,
"Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 "but whoever drinks of the water that
I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will
become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life." 15 The woman said to Him, "Sir, give me
this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw." 16 Jesus said to her, "Go, call your
husband, and come here." 17 The woman answered and said, "I have
no husband." Jesus said to her, "You have well said, 'I have no
husband,' 18 "for you have had
five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you
spoke truly." 19 The woman said to Him, "Sir, I
perceive that You are a prophet. 20 "Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in 21 Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain,
nor in 22 "You worship what you do not know; we
know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. 23 "But the hour is coming, and now is,
when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father
is seeking such to worship Him. 24 "God is Spirit, and those who worship
Him must worship in spirit and truth." 25 The woman said to Him, "I know that
Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When He comes, He will
tell us all things." 26 Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you
am He." 27 And at this point His disciples came, and
they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, "What do You seek?" or, "Why are You talking with
her?" 28 The woman then left her waterpot,
went her way into the city, and said to the men, 29 "Come, see a
Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?" 30 Then they went out of the city and came to
Him. 31 In the meantime His disciples urged Him,
saying, "Rabbi, eat." 32 But He said to them, "I have food to
eat of which you do not know." 33 Therefore the disciples said to one
another, "Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?" 34 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do
the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. 35 "Do you not say, 'There are still four
months and then comes the harvest'? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and
look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! 36 "And he who reaps receives wages, and
gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may
rejoice together. 37 "For in this the saying is true: 'One
sows and another reaps.' 38 "I sent you to reap that for which you
have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their
labors." 39
And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him because of the word of
the woman who testified, "He told me all that I ever did." 40 So when the Samaritans had come to Him,
they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed because of His own word. 42 Then they said to the woman, "Now we
believe, not because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard Him and we
know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world." **** |