John 4:35–54

³⁵“Don’t you say, ‘There are still four more months, then comes the harvest’? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open ^jyour eyes and look at the fields, for they are ready ^kfor harvest. ³⁶The reaper is already receiving pay and gathering fruit for eternal life, ^lso the sower and reaper can rejoice together. ³⁷For in this case the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’ ^m38I sent you to reap what you didn’t labor for; others have labored, and you have benefited from ⁿtheir labor.”

The Savior of the World

³⁹Now many Samaritans ^ofrom that town believed in Him because of what the woman said ^pwhen she testified, ^q“He told me everything I ever did.” ⁴⁰Therefore, when the Samaritans came to Him, ^rthey asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed there two days. ⁴¹Many more believed because of what He said. ^s42And they told the woman, “We no longer believe because of what you said, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this really is the Savior ^tof the world.” ^u

A Galilean Welcome

⁴³After two days He left there for Galilee. ^v44Jesus Himself testified ^wthat a prophet has no honor in his own country. ^x45When ^ythey entered Galilee, the Galileans ^zwelcomed Him because they had seen everything He did in Jerusalem ^aduring the festival. ^bFor they also had gone to the festival.

The Second Sign: Healing an Official’s Son

⁴⁶Then He went again to Cana ^cof Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. There was a certain royal official whose son was ill at Capernaum. ^d47When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea ^einto Galilee, he went to Him and pleaded with Him to come down and heal his son, for he was about to die.

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

⁴⁹“Sir,” ^hthe official said to Him, “come down before my boy dies!”

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

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

⁵⁴This, therefore, was the second sign ^lJesus performed after He came from Judea to Galilee. ^m