John 4:35–54

³⁵“Don’t you say, ‘There are still four more months, and then comes the harvest’? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open^C your eyes and look at the fields, because they are ready^D for harvest. ³⁶The reaper is already receiving pay and gathering fruit for eternal life,^d so that the sower and reaper can rejoice together. ³⁷For in this case the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’^{e 38}I sent you to reap what you didn’t labor for; others have labored, and you have benefited from^A their labor.”

THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD

³⁹Now many Samaritans^f from that town believed in him because of what the woman said^B when she testified,^g “He told me everything I ever did.” ⁴⁰So when the Samaritans came to him,^h they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. ⁴¹Many more believed because of what he said.^{C 42}And they told the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said, since we have heard for ourselves and know that this really is the Saviorⁱ of the world.”^D

A GALILEAN WELCOME

⁴³After two days he left there for Galilee.^{j 44}(Jesus himself had testified^k that a prophet has no honor in his own country.^l) ⁴⁵When^m they entered Galilee, the Galileansⁿ welcomed him because they had seen everything he did in Jerusalem^o during the festival.^p For they also had gone to the festival.

THE SECOND SIGN: HEALING AN OFFICIAL’S SON

⁴⁶He went again to Cana^q of Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. There was a certain royal official whose son was ill at Capernaum.^{r 47}When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea^s into Galilee, he went to him and pleaded with him to come down and heal his son, since he was about to die.

⁴⁸Jesus told him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders,^t you will not believe.”^u

⁴⁹“Sir,”^v the official said to him, “come down before my boy dies.”

⁵⁰“Go,” Jesus told him, “your son will live.” The man believed what^E Jesus said to him and departed.

⁵¹While he was still going down, his servants met him saying that his boy was alive. ⁵²He asked them at what time he got better. “Yesterday at one in the afternoon^F the fever left him,” they answered. ⁵³The father^w realized this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” So he himself believed, along with his whole household.

⁵⁴Now this was also the second sign^x Jesus performed after he came from Judea to Galilee.^y