John 4

¹ Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

² (although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples), CCC

³ he left Judea and departed into Galilee. CCC

⁴ He needed to pass through Samaria.

⁵ So he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

⁶ Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. Fathers

⁷ A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”

⁸ For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. CCC

⁹ The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) CCC

¹⁰ Jesus answered 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.” CCC

¹¹ The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water? CCC

¹² Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?” CCC

¹³ Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, CCC

¹⁴ but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.” CCC · Fathers

¹⁵ The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.”

¹⁶ Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” CCC

¹⁷ The woman answered, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’

¹⁸ for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.”

¹⁹ The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

²⁰ Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” CCC

²¹ Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. CCC

²² You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. CCC

²³ But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers. CCC

²⁴ God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” CCC

²⁵ The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things.” CCC

²⁶ Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.” CCC

²⁷ Just then, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?”

²⁸ So the woman left her water pot, went away into the city, and said to the people,

²⁹ “Come, see a man who told me everything that I have done. Can this be the Christ?”

³⁰ They went out of the city, and were coming to him.

³¹ In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

³² But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”

³³ The disciples therefore said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”

³⁴ Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. CCC

³⁵ Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest’? Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already. Fathers

³⁶ He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to 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.’ Fathers

³⁸ I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

³⁹ From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I have done.”

⁴⁰ So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.

⁴¹ Many more believed because of his word. Fathers

⁴² They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”

⁴³ After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee.

⁴⁴ For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

⁴⁵ So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast.

⁴⁶ Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.

⁴⁷ When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.

⁴⁸ Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.”

⁴⁹ The nobleman said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

⁵⁰ Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.

⁵¹ As he was going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!”

⁵² So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him.”

⁵³ So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” He believed, as did his whole house.

⁵⁴ This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.

¹ WWhen Jesus therefore understood that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus maketh more disciples and baptizeth more than John,

² (Though Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples), CCC

³ He left Judea and went again into Galilee. CCC

⁴ And he was of necessity to pass through Samaria.

⁵ He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, which is called Sichar, near the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

⁶ Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour. Fathers

⁷ There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus saith to her: Give me to drink.

⁸ For his disciples were gone into the city to buy meats. CCC

⁹ Then that Samaritan woman saith to him: How dost thou, being a Jew; ask of me to drink, who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews do not communicate with the Samaritans. CCC

¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her: If thou didst know the gift of God and who he is that saith to thee: Give me to drink; thou perhaps wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. CCC

¹¹ The woman saith to him: Sir, thou hast nothing wherein to draw, and the well is deep. From whence then hast thou living water? CCC

¹² Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank thereof, himself and his children and his cattle? CCC

¹³ Jesus answered and said to her: Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: but he that shall drink of the water that I will give him shall not thirst for ever. CCC

¹⁴ But the water that I will give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting. CCC · Fathers

¹⁵ The woman said to him: Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.

¹⁶ Jesus saith to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither. CCC

¹⁷ The woman answered and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast said well: I have no husband.

¹⁸ For thou hast had five husbands: and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. This, thou hast said truly.

¹⁹ The woman saith to him: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

²⁰ Our fathers adored on this mountain: and you say that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore. CCC

²¹ Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe me that the hour cometh, when you shall neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, adore the Father. CCC

²² You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know. For salvation is of the Jews. CCC

²³ But the hour cometh and now is, when the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeketh such to adore him. CCC

²⁴ God is a spirit: and they that adore him must adore him in spirit and in truth. CCC

²⁵ The woman saith to him: I know that the Messias cometh (who is called Christ): therefore, when he is come, he will tell us all things. CCC

²⁶ Jesus saith to her: I am he, who am speaking with thee. CCC

²⁷ And immediately his disciples came. And they wondered that he talked with the woman. Yet no man said: What seekest thou? Or: Why talkest thou with her?

²⁸ The woman therefore left her waterpot and went her way into the city and saith to the men there:

²⁹ Come, and see a man who has told me all things whatsoever I have done. Is not he the Christ?

³⁰ They went therefore out of the city and came unto him.

³¹ In the mean time, the disciples prayed him, saying: Rabbi, eat.

³² But he said to them: I have meat to eat which you know not.

³³ The disciples therefore said one to another: Hath any man brought him to eat?

³⁴ Jesus saith to them: My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, that I may perfect his work. CCC

³⁵ Do not you say: There are yet four months, and then the harvest cometh? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the countries. For they are white already to harvest. Fathers

³⁶ And he that reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

³⁷ For in this is the saying true: That it is one man that soweth, and it is another that reapeth. Fathers

³⁸ I have sent you to reap that in which you did not labour. Others have laboured: and you have entered into their labours.

³⁹ Now of that city many of the Samaritans believed in him, for the word of the woman giving testimony: He told me all things whatsoever I have done.

⁴⁰ So when the Samaritans were come to him, they desired that he would tarry there. And he abode there two days.

⁴¹ And many more believed in him, because of his own word. Fathers

⁴² And they said to the woman: We now believe, not for thy saying: for we ourselves have heard him and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.

⁴³ Now after two days, he departed thence and went into Galilee.

⁴⁴ For Jesus himself gave testimony that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.

⁴⁵ And when he was come into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things he had done at Jerusalem on the festival day: for they also went to the festival day.

⁴⁶ He came again therefore into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain ruler, whose son was sick at Capharnaum.

⁴⁷ He having heard that Jesus was come from Judea into Galilee, went to him and prayed him to come down and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.

⁴⁸ Jesus therefore said to him: Unless you see signs and wonders, you believe not.

⁴⁹ The ruler saith to him: Lord, come down before that my son die.

⁵⁰ Jesus saith to him: Go thy way. Thy son liveth. The man believed the word which Jesus said to him and went his way.

⁵¹ And as he was going down, his servants met him: and they brought word, saying, that his son lived.

⁵² He asked therefore of them the hour wherein he grew better. And they said to him: Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him.

⁵³ The father therefore knew that it was at the same hour that Jesus said to him: Thy son liveth. And himself believed, and his whole house.

⁵⁴ This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judea into Galilee.