Dual Panel1Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard, "Jesus is baptizing and making more disciples than John"
2(though Jesus himself didn’t baptize them––his disciples did).
3So he left Judea to return to Galilee.
4He had to go through Samaria on the way.
5Eventually he came to the Samaritan village of Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6Jacob’s well was there; and Jesus, tired from the long walk, sat wearily beside the well about noontime.
7Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, "Please give me a drink."
8He was alone at the time because his disciples had gone into the village to buy some food.
9The woman was surprised, for Jews refuse to have anything to do with Samaritans. She said to Jesus, "You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan woman. Why are you asking me for a drink?"
10Jesus replied, "If you only knew the gift God has for you and who I am, you would ask me, and I would give you living water."
11"But sir, you don’t have a rope or a bucket," she said, "and this is a very deep well. Where would you get this living water?
12And besides, are you greater than our ancestor Jacob who gave us this well? How can you offer better water than he and his sons and his cattle enjoyed?"
13Jesus replied, "People soon become thirsty again after drinking this water.
14But the water I give them takes away thirst altogether. It becomes a perpetual spring within them, giving them eternal life."
15"Please, sir," the woman said, "give me some of that water! Then I’ll never be thirsty again, and I won’t have to come here to haul water."
16"Go and get your husband," Jesus told her.
17"I don’t have a husband," the woman replied. Jesus said, "You’re right! You don’t have a husband––
18for you have had five husbands, and you aren’t even married to the man you’re living with now."
19"Sir," the woman said, "you must be a prophet.
20So tell me, why is it that you Jews insist that Jerusalem is the only place of worship, while we Samaritans claim it is here at Mount Gerizim, where our ancestors worshiped?"
21Jesus replied, "Believe me, the time is coming when it will no longer matter whether you worship the Father here or in Jerusalem.
22You Samaritans know so little about the one you worship, while we Jews know all about him, for salvation comes through the Jews.
23But the time is coming and is already here when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for anyone who will worship him that way.
24For God is Spirit, so those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth."
25The woman said, "I know the Messiah will come––the one who is called Christ. When he comes, he will explain everything to us."
26Then Jesus told her, "I am the Messiah!"
27Just then his disciples arrived. They were astonished to find him talking to a woman, but none of them asked him why he was doing it or what they had been discussing.
28The woman left her water jar beside the well and went back to the village and told everyone,
29"Come and meet a man who told me everything I ever did! Can this be the Messiah?"
30So the people came streaming from the village to see him.
31Meanwhile, the disciples were urging Jesus to eat.
32"No," he said, "I have food you don’t know about."
33"Who brought it to him?" the disciples asked each other.
34Then Jesus explained: "My nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work.
35Do you think the work of harvesting will not begin until the summer ends four months from now? Look around you! Vast fields are ripening all around us and are ready now for the harvest.
36The harvesters are paid good wages, and the fruit they harvest is people brought to eternal life. What joy awaits both the planter and the harvester alike!
37You know the saying, ‘One person plants and someone else harvests.’ And it’s true.
38I sent you to harvest where you didn’t plant; others had already done the work, and you will gather the harvest."
39Many Samaritans from the village believed in Jesus because the woman had said, "He told me everything I ever did!"
40When they came out to see him, they begged him to stay at their village. So he stayed for two days,
41long enough for many of them to hear his message and believe.
42Then they said to the woman, "Now we believe because we have heard him ourselves, not just because of what you told us. He is indeed the Savior of the world."
43At the end of the two days’ stay, Jesus went on into Galilee.
44He had previously said, "A prophet is honored everywhere except in his own country."
45The Galileans welcomed him, for they had been in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration and had seen all his miraculous signs.
46In the course of his journey through Galilee, he arrived at the town of Cana, where he had turned the water into wine. There was a government official in the city of Capernaum whose son was very sick.
47When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea and was traveling in Galilee, he went over to Cana. He found Jesus and begged him to come to Capernaum with him to heal his son, who was about to die.
48Jesus asked, "Must I do miraculous signs and wonders before you people will believe in me?"
49The official pleaded, "Lord, please come now before my little boy dies."
50Then Jesus told him, "Go back home. Your son will live!" And the man believed Jesus’ word and started home.
51While he was on his way, some of his servants met him with the news that his son was alive and well.
52He asked them when the boy had begun to feel better, and they replied, "Yesterday afternoon at one o’clock his fever suddenly disappeared!"
53Then the father realized it was the same time that Jesus had told him, "Your son will live." And the officer and his entire household believed in Jesus.
54This was Jesus’ second miraculous sign in Galilee after coming from Judea.