The Ministry Of Jesus. John’s Gospel

Jesus and the Samaritan Woman.

When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that He made and baptized more disciples than John, although Jesus Himself baptized no one, but his disciples did, He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee. And it was necessary for Jesus to pass through Samaria. Then He entered into a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.

A woman of Samaria came to draw water: Jesus said unto her, Give me to drink. For His disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat. Then the woman of Samaria said unto Him, How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink of me, for I 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 says to you, Give Me to drink; you would have asked of Him, and He would have given you living water.

The woman said unto Jesus, 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, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinks of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever 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 Jesus, 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 said the truth that you do not have a husband For you have had had five husbands, and he whom you have now is not your husband: in this, you have spoken truthfully. The woman said unto Jesus, 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. God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth. The woman said unto Jesus, I know that Messias comes, who is called Christ: when He comes, He will tell us all things. Jesus said unto her, I that speak unto you I am He. John 4 vs 1-26.

The Disciples Return and Marvel.

And upon this came His disciples, and marvelled that He talked with the woman: yet no man said, What do you seek? or, Why do You speak with her? The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and said to the men, Come, see a man, who has told me all things that I have ever done, is not this the Christ? Then they went out of the city and came unto Jesus. Meanwhile, His disciples besought Jesus to eat, but He said unto them, I have meat to eat that you do not know off. Therefore the disciples said one to another, Has any man brought Him anything to eat? Jesus said unto them, My meat is to do the will of Him that sent Me and to finish His work.

Do not say, There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest? Behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are already white to harvest. And he that reaps shall receive wages and gathers fruit unto life eternal: that both he that sow and he that reaps may rejoice together. And herein is that saying true, One sow, and another reaps. I sent you to reap that wherein you did no labour: other men laboured, and you are entered into their labours. John 4 vs 27-38.

Many Samaritans Believe.

And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on Jesus for the testimony of the woman, who said He told me all that ever I did. So when the Samaritans came unto Jesus, they besought Him that He would tarry with them: and Jesus stayed there for two days. And many more believed because of His own word; And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of you saying: for we have heard Jesus ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world. John 4 vs 38-42.

Welcome at Galilee

Now after the two days, Jesus departed from there and went to Galilee. For Jesus, Himself testified that a prophet has no honour in his own country. So when Jesus came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen all the things He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they also had gone to the feast. John 4 v 43-45.

A Nobleman’s Son Healed

So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Jesus and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe.” The nobleman said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!”

Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your son lives.” So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to 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 he inquired of them the hour when he got better. And they said to 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 to him, “Your son lives.” And he himself believed, and his whole household. This again is the second sign Jesus did when He had come out of Judea into Galilee. John 4 v 46-54.