John 4:35–54

³⁵You have a saying, ‘Four more months and then the harvest.’ But I tell you, take a good look at the fields; the crops are now ripe and ready to be harvested! ³⁶The one who reaps the harvest is being paid and gathers the crops for eternal life; so another who sows and the one who reaps will be glad together. ³⁷The saying is true, ‘One sows, another reaps.’ ³⁸I have sent you to reap a harvest in a field where you did not work; others worked there, and you profit from their work.”

³⁹Many of the Samaritans in that town believed in Jesus because the woman had said, “He told me everything I have ever done.” ⁴⁰So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them, and Jesus stayed there two days.

⁴¹Many more believed because of his message, ⁴²and they said to the woman, “We believe now, not because of what you said, but because we ourselves have heard him, and we know that he really is the Saviour of the world.”

Jesus Heals an Official’s Son

⁴³After spending two days there, Jesus left and went to Galilee. ^44*For he himself had said, “A prophet is not respected in his own country.” ^45*When he arrived in Galilee, the people there welcomed him, because they had gone to the Passover Festival in Jerusalem and had seen everything that he had done during the festival.

^46*Then Jesus went back to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. A government official was there whose son was ill in Capernaum. ⁴⁷When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him to go to Capernaum and heal his son, who was about to die. ⁴⁸Jesus said to him, “None of you will ever believe unless you see miracles and wonders.”

⁴⁹“Sir,” replied the official, “come with me before my child dies.”

⁵⁰Jesus said to him, “Go, your son will live!”

The man believed Jesus’ words and went. ⁵¹On his way home his servants met him with the news, “Your boy is going to live!”

⁵²He asked them what time it was when his son got better, and they answered, “It was one o’clock yesterday afternoon when the fever left him.” ⁵³Then the father remembered it was at that very hour that Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” So he and all his family believed.

⁵⁴This was the second miracle that Jesus performed after coming from Judea to Galilee.