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When the Lord Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that He was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John

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— although Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples, —

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He left Judea and returned again to Galilee.

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He had to pass through Samaria.

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So He came to a city in Samaria called Sychar, near the land that Jacob had given long ago to his son Joseph.

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There was Jacob’s well there. Jesus was very weary from the journey, so He sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

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A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”

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For His disciples had gone into the city to buy food.

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Then the Samaritan woman said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink of me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

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Jesus answered and said to 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.”

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The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; where then do You get that living water?

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Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock?”

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Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,

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but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst. Instead, the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up continually to eternal life.”

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The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me that water, so that I may not thirst and not have to come here again to draw water.”

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

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

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for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. In this you have spoken truly.”

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The woman said to Him, “Sir, I see now that You are a prophet.

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Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”

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Jesus said to her, “Believe Me, woman, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

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You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

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But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father seeks such people to worship Him.

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God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

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The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming, who is called Christ; when He comes, He will tell us all things.”

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Jesus said to her, “I am He, the one speaking with you.”

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At that moment His disciples came, and they marveled that He was speaking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You speaking with her?”

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Then the woman left her water jar there and went into the city and said to the people there:

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“Come, see! There is a man who told me everything I have done. Could this be the Christ?”

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So they went out of the city and came to Jesus.

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Meanwhile the disciples urged Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

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But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”

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So the disciples said to one another, “Has someone brought Him something to eat?”

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Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.

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Do you not say, ‘There are still four months, then comes the harvest’? But I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white and ready for harvest.

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Even now the reaper receives his wages and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

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For in this the saying is true: One sows and another reaps.

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I sent you to reap what you did not labor for; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

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

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So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.

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And many more believed because of His word,

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and they said to the woman, “We believe, not because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard Him, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”

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And after those two days Jesus departed from there to Galilee,

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for Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.

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So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, because they had seen all that He had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also had gone to the feast.

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So Jesus came again to Cana in Galilee, where He had made the water wine. And there was a certain royal official in Capernaum, whose son was sick.

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

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Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”

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The royal official said to Him, “Lord, come down before my child dies.”

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Jesus said to him, “Go; your son lives!” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went away.

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And as he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his son was alive.

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So he asked them at what hour the child began to get better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at one in the afternoon the fever left him.”

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Then the father remembered that at that very hour Jesus had said to him, “Your son lives.” So he himself believed, and his whole household.

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And this was the second sign that Jesus did when He came from Judea to Galilee.

📖 John 4 – The Samaritan Woman and True Worship

🧾 Summary of John 4

This chapter contains two main parts:

1. Jesus’ conversation with the Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well.
2. The healing of the royal official’s son in Capernaum.

Through both, Jesus shows that the Gospel is not only for the Jews, but also for those who are socially and ethnically outcast. Jesus also introduces worship in spirit and truth, as well as true faith.

1. Jesus and the Samaritan Woman (verses 1–42)

• Jesus passed through Samaria and stopped at Jacob’s well near Sychar.
• He asked a Samaritan woman for a drink, which surprised her because Jews generally avoided Samaritans.
• Jesus said:

“If you knew the gift of God… you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” (verse 10)

• The woman became curious and asked further.

“The hour is coming… true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth…” (verse 23)

• The woman then testified to the people in her town, and many believed.

👉 Meaning:
Jesus crossed social, cultural, and religious boundaries to reach hearts thirsty for truth.

2. Jesus Heals the Official’s Son (verses 43–54)

• An official from Capernaum asked Jesus to heal his son, who was gravely ill.
• Jesus tested his faith:

“Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe.”

• Yet the official still believed and pleaded. Jesus said:

“Go; your son lives!”

• While he was on his way home, his servants reported that his son had recovered at the very hour when Jesus said this.

👉 Meaning:
Jesus heals from a distance by His word alone, and the official’s faith grew through obedience and trust.

📘 Main Teachings of John 4

1. Jesus is the living water who satisfies humanity’s deepest spiritual thirst.
2. True worship is not about location, but about spiritual relationship and truth with God.
3. God’s love surpasses ethnic boundaries, social status, and a dark past.
4. A person’s testimony after being touched by Jesus can bring many to repentance.
5. True faith is believing even without seeing directly.

✨ Spiritual Meaning of John 4

• The Lord knows who we are, yet still draws near to us in love.
• There is a longing in every human heart to be touched by living water—that is, the presence of Jesus himself.
• Worship is not a formality, but an open and honest heart before God.
• Personal testimony (like that of the Samaritan woman) is often stronger than theological argument.
• Miracles are not the final goal, but a channel for growing faith.