John 4:35–54

³⁵“Don’t you say, ‘In four more months the harvest will be here’? I’m telling you to look and see that the fields are ready to be harvested. ³⁶The person who harvests the crop is already getting paid. He is gathering grain for eternal life. So the person who plants the grain and the person who harvests it are happy together. ³⁷In this respect the saying is true: ‘One person plants, and another person harvests.’ ³⁸I have sent you to harvest a crop you have not worked for. Other people have done the hard work, and you have followed them in their work.” 

³⁹Many Samaritans in that city believed in Jesus because of the woman who said, “He told me everything I’ve ever done.” ⁴⁰So when the Samaritans went to Jesus, they asked him to stay with them. He stayed in Samaria for two days. ⁴¹Many more Samaritans believed because of what Jesus said. ⁴²They told the woman, “Our faith is no longer based on what you’ve said. We have heard him ourselves, and we know that he really is the savior of the world.” 

A Believing Official—Matthew 8:5–13; Luke 7:1–10

⁴³After spending two days in Samaria, Jesus left for Galilee. ⁴⁴Jesus had said that a prophet is not honored in his own country. ⁴⁵But when Jesus arrived in Galilee, the people of Galilee welcomed him. They had seen everything he had done at the festival in Jerusalem, since they, too, had attended the festival. 

⁴⁶Jesus returned to the city of Cana in Galilee, where he had changed water into wine. A government official was in Cana. His son was sick in Capernaum. ⁴⁷The official heard that Jesus had returned from Judea to Galilee. So he went to Jesus and asked him to go to Capernaum with him to heal his son who was about to die. 

⁴⁸Jesus told the official, “If people don’t see miracles and amazing things, they won’t believe.” 

⁴⁹The official said to him, “Sir, come with me before my little boy dies.” 

⁵⁰Jesus told him, “Go home. Your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus told him and left. 

⁵¹While the official was on his way to Capernaum, his servants met him and told him that his boy was alive. ⁵²The official asked them at what time his son got better. His servants told him, “The fever left him yesterday evening at seven o’clock.” ⁵³Then the boy’s father realized that it was the same time that Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” So the official and his entire family became believers. 

⁵⁴This was the second miracle that Jesus performed after he had come back from Judea to Galilee.