Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying. And they came unto John, and said…, "Rabbi, he that was with you beyond Jordan, to whom you bore witness, behold, the same baptizes, and all men come to him."

John answered and said, "A man can receive nothing, except it be given him from heaven. You yourselves bear me witness that I said; I am not the Christ, but that I am sent before him. He must increase, but I must decrease.

"For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God: for God gives…the Spirit without measure unto him. The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. He that believes on the Son has everlasting life: and he that believes not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him."
When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that he made and baptized more disciples than John, (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,) He left Judea, and departed again into Galilee. And he must…go through Samaria.

Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour. There came a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus said unto her, "Give me to drink." (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy food.)

Then said the woman of Samaria unto him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, asks drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria?" (For the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.)

Jesus answered and said unto her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that said to you, ‘Give me to drink’; you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water."

The woman said unto him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from where then have you that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his children, and his cattle?" Jesus answered and said unto her, "Whoever drinks of this water shall thirst again: But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."

The woman said unto him, "Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come here to draw."

Jesus said unto her, "Go, call your husband, and come here." The woman answered and said, "I have no husband." Jesus said unto her, "You have well said, ‘I have no husband’: For you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband: in that say you truly."

The woman said unto him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and you say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship."

Jesus said unto her, "Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when you shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. You worship you know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeks such to worship him."

The woman said unto Jesus, "I know that Messiah comes, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things."

Jesus said unto her, "I that speak unto you am he."

And upon this came his disciples, and marveled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, "What seek you?" or, "Why talk you with her?"

The woman then left her water pot, and went her way into the city, and said to the men, "Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?" Then they went out of the city, and came unto Jesus.

In the mean while Jesus’ disciples begged him, saying, "Master, eat."

But he said unto them, "I have food to eat that you know not of." Therefore said the disciples one to another, "Has any man brought him food to eat?"

Jesus said unto them, "My food is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. Say not you, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes harvest?’ Behold, I say unto you, lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, for they are white already to harvest. And he that reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit unto life eternal: that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together. And here is that saying true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap that on which you expended no labor: Other men labored, and you are entered into their labors."

So when the Samaritans were come unto Jesus, they requested…that he would remain with them: and he remained there two days. And many more believed because of his own word; and said unto the woman, "Now we believe, not because of your saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world."

Now after two days he departed from Samaria, and went into Galilee. And when he was come into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast….

So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judea into Galilee, the nobleman went unto him, and begged him that he would come down, and heal his son: for the boy was at the point of death. Then said Jesus unto him, "Except you see signs and wonders, you will not believe."

The nobleman said unto Jesus, "Sir, come down before my child die."

Jesus said unto him, "Go your way; your son lives." And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.

And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, "Your son lives."

Then inquired the nobleman of them the hour when his son began to recover. And they said unto him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him." So the father knew that it was at the same hour in…which Jesus said unto him, "Your son lives"; and he believed, and his whole house. This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judea into Galilee.

From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, "Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." …And there went out a fame of him through all the region round about. And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.

And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, Jesus went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Isaiah.

And when Jesus had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord." And Jesus closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down.

And the eyes of all…that were in the synagogue were fastened on Jesus. And he began to say unto them, "This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears."

And all bare Jesus witness, and wondered at the gracious words, which proceeded out of his mouth. And they said, "Is not this Joseph's son?"

And Jesus said unto them, "You will surely say unto me this proverb, ‘Physician, heal yourself: whatever we have heard done in Capernaum, do also here in your country.’ Truly I say unto you, no prophet is accepted in his own country. But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land; But unto none of them was Elijah sent, save unto Zarephath, a city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow. And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Elisha the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian."

And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things, were filled with anger, and rose up, and drove Jesus out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill upon which their city was built, that they might throw him down headlong. But Jesus passing through the middle of them went his way, and came down to Capernaum…and taught them on the sabbath days. And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power.

REFERENCES

John 3:25-28, 30, 34-36; John 4:1-4; John 4:4-23, 25-38, 40-43, 45-54; Matthew 4:17;Luke 4:14-15; Luke 4:16-32.

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