Outline
I. Prologue: The Word Became Flesh (1:1-18)
The Beginning of Jesus' Ministry (1:19-51)
Changing Water into Wine (2:1-11)Cleansing the Temple (2:12-25)Jesus Teaches Nicodemus (3:1-21)John the Baptist's Final Testimony about Jesus (3:22-36)- Jesus and the Samaritans (4:1-42)
- Healing of the Official's Son (4:43-54)
Jesus' Visit to Jerusalem at an Annual Feast (ch. 5)Feeding the 5,000 and Jesus' Claim to Be the Bread of Life (ch. 6)Jesus at the Feast of Tabernacles and Disputes over Who He Is (chs. 7-8)Healing of the Man Born Blind (ch. 9)Jesus is the Good Shepherd (10:1-21)Conflict at the Feast of Dedication over Jesus' Identity (10:22-42)The Raising of Lazarus (ch. 11)
Statement of the Gospel's Purpose (20:30-31)Epilogue: Jesus' Recommissioning of the Disciples (ch. 21)
John 4 NLT
1 Jesus knew the Pharisees had heard that
he was baptizing and making more disciples than John
2 (though Jesus himself didn’t baptize
them—his disciples did).
3 So he left Judea and returned to
Galilee.
4 He had to go through Samaria on the
way.
5 Eventually he came to the Samaritan
village of Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6 Jacob’s well was there; and Jesus, tired
from the long walk, sat wearily beside the well about noontime.
7 Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw
water, and Jesus said to her, “Please give me a drink.”
8 He was alone at the time because his
disciples had gone into the village to buy some food.
9 The 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?”
10 Jesus replied, “If you only knew the
gift God has for you and who you are speaking to, 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 well is very deep. Where would you get this living
water?
12 And besides, do you think you’re greater
than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us this well? How can you offer better water
than he and his sons and his animals enjoyed?”
13Jesus replied, “Anyone who drinks this water
will soon become thirsty again.
14 But those who drink the water I give
will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them,
giving them eternal life.”
15 “Please, sir,” the woman said, “give me
this water! Then I’ll never be thirsty again, and I won’t have to come here to
get 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—
18 for you have had five husbands, and you
aren’t even married to the man you’re living with now. You certainly spoke the
truth!”
19 “Sir,” the woman said, “you must be a
prophet.
20 So 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?”
21 Jesus replied, “Believe me, dear woman,
the time is coming when it will no longer matter whether you worship the Father
on this mountain or in Jerusalem.
22 You Samaritans know very little about
the one you worship, while we Jews know all about him, for salvation comes
through the Jews.
23 But the time is coming—indeed it’s here
now—when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The
Father is looking for those who will worship him that way.
24 For God is Spirit, so those who worship
him must worship in spirit and in truth.”
25 The woman said, “I know the Messiah is
coming—the one who is called Christ. When he comes, he will explain everything
to us.”
26 Then Jesus told her, “I AM the
Messiah!”
27Just then his disciples came back. They were
shocked to find him talking to a woman, but none of them had the nerve to ask,
“What do you want with her?” or “Why are you talking to her?”
28 The woman left her water jar beside the
well and ran back to the village, telling everyone,
29 “Come and see a man who told me
everything I ever did! Could he possibly be the Messiah?”
30 So the people came streaming from the
village to see him.
31 Meanwhile, the disciples were urging
Jesus, “Rabbi, eat something.”
32 But Jesus replied, “I have a kind of
food you know nothing about.”
33 “Did someone bring him food while we
were gone?” the disciples asked each other.
34 Then Jesus explained: “My nourishment
comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his
work.
35 You know the saying, ‘Four months
between planting and harvest.’ But I say, wake up and look around. The fields
are already ripe for harvest.
36 The 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!
37 You know the saying, ‘One plants and
another harvests.’ And it’s true.
38 I sent you to harvest where you didn’t
plant; others had already done the work, and now you will get to gather the
harvest.”
39 Many Samaritans from the village
believed in Jesus because the woman had said, “He told me everything I ever
did!”
40 When they came out to see him, they
begged him to stay in their village. So he stayed for two days,
41 long enough for many more to hear his
message and believe.
42 Then they said to the woman, “Now we
believe, not just because of what you told us, but because we have heard him
ourselves. Now we know that he is indeed the Savior of the world.”
43 At the end of the two days, Jesus went
on to Galilee.
44 He himself had said that a prophet is
not honored in his own hometown.
45 Yet the Galileans welcomed him, for they
had been in Jerusalem at the Passover celebration and had seen everything he
did there.
46 As he traveled through Galilee, he came
to Cana, where he had turned the water into wine. There was a government
official in nearby Capernaum whose son was very sick.
47 When he heard that Jesus had come from
Judea to Galilee, he went and begged Jesus to come to Capernaum to heal his
son, who was about to die.
48 Jesus asked, “Will you never believe in
me unless you see miraculous signs and wonders?”
49 The official pleaded, “Lord, please come
now before my little boy dies.”
50 Then Jesus told him, “Go back home. Your
son will live!” And the man believed what Jesus said and started home.
51 While the man was on his way, some of
his servants met him with the news that his son was alive and well.
52 He asked them when the boy had begun to
get better, and they replied, “Yesterday afternoon at one o’clock his fever
suddenly disappeared!”
53 Then the father realized that that was
the very time Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” And he and his entire
household believed in Jesus.
54 This was the second miraculous sign
Jesus did in Galilee after coming from Judea.
