IV. When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard, that Jesus made and immersed more disciples than John 2(though Jesus himself immersed not, but his disciples), 3he left Judæa, and departed again into Galilee. 4And he must go through Samaria. 5He comes therefore to a city of Samaria, called Sychar[5], near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6And Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with the journey, sat down thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7There comes a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus, says to her: Give me to drink. 8For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. 9The Samaritan woman therefore says to him: How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, being a Samaritan woman? For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. 10Jesus answered and said to her: If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that says to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. 11The woman says to him: Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From whence then hast thou the living water. 12Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? 13Jesus answered and said to her: Every one that drinks of this water shall thirst again. 14But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up into everlasting life. 15The woman says to him: Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.
16Jesus says to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither. 17The woman answered and said: I have no husband. Jesus says to her: Thou saidst well, I have no husband. 18For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. That thou hast spoken truly.
19The woman says to him: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. 20Our fathers worshiped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. 21Jesus says to her: Woman, believe me, an hour is coming, when ye shall neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem worship the Father. 22Ye worship that which ye know not; we worship that which we know; because salvation is of the Jews. 23But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth; for such the Father seeks to worship him. 24God is spirit; and they that worship him, must worship in spirit and in truth.
25The woman says to him: I know that Messiah comes (who is called Christ); when he is come, he will tell us all things. 26Jesus says to her: I that speak to thee am he. 27And upon this came his disciples; and they marveled that he talked with the woman[27]. Yet no one said: What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her? 28The woman then left her water-pot, and went away into the city; and she says to the men: 29Come, see a man who told me all things that ever I did. Is this the Christ? 30Then they went out of the city, and came to him.
31In the mean while the disciples prayed him, saying: Master, eat. 32But he said to them: I have food to eat that ye know not of. 33Therefore said the disciples one to another: Has any one brought him aught to eat? 34Jesus says to them: My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work. 35Do ye not say, that there are yet four months, and then comes the harvest? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are already white for harvest. 36And he that reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit unto life eternal; that both he that sows and he that reaps may rejoice together. 37And herein is the true saying: One sows, and another reaps. 38I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored. Other men have labored, and ye have entered into their labor.
39And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, who testified: He told me all that ever I did. 40When therefore the Samaritans came to him, they besought him to remain with them. And he remained there two days. 41And far more believed because of his word; 42and said to the woman: We no longer believe because of thy saying; for we ourselves have heard, and know that this is in truth the Savior of the world.
43And after the two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee. 44For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
45When therefore he came into Galilee, the Galilæans received him, having seen all that he did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they also went to the feast. 46So he came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine.
And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick, in Capernaum. 47He, having heard that Jesus is come out of Judæa into Galilee, went to him, and besought him that he would come down and heal his son; for he was about to die. 48Jesus therefore said to him: Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe. 49The nobleman says to him: Sir, come down ere my child die. 50Jesus says to him: Go thy way; thy son lives. And the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. 51And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and brought word saying: Thy child lives. 52He inquired of them, therefore, the hour when he began to amend. And they said to him: Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him. 53The father knew, therefore, that it was in the same hour in which Jesus said to him: Thy son lives. And he himself believed, and his whole house. 54This second sign Jesus wrought, when he had come out of Judæa into Galilee.