John 4:35–54

³⁵Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months and the harvest comes’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.^{b 36}The one who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit for eternal life, in order that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together. ³⁷For in this instance^* the saying is true, ‘It is one who sows and another who reaps.’ ³⁸I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have worked, and you have entered into their work.”

The Samaritans and the Savior of the World

³⁹Now from that town many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me everything that I have done.” ⁴⁰So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking^* him to stay with them. And he stayed there two days. ⁴¹And many more believed because of his word, ⁴²And they were saying to the woman, “No longer because of what you said^c do we believe, for we ourselves have heard, and we know that this one is truly the Savior of the world!”

Return to Galilee

⁴³And after the two days he departed from there into Galilee. ⁴⁴For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own homeland. ⁴⁵So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, because they^* had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had also come to the feast).

A Royal Official’s Son Is Healed

⁴⁶Now he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was at Capernaum a certain royal official whose son was sick. ⁴⁷This man, when he^* heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, went to him and asked that he come down and heal his son, for he was about to die. ⁴⁸So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people^* see signs and wonders, you will never believe!” ⁴⁹The royal official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!” ⁵⁰Jesus said to him, “Go, your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he departed.

⁵¹Now as^* he was going down, his slaves met him, saying that his child was alive. ⁵²So he inquired from them the hour at which he had gotten better. Then they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” ⁵³So the father knew that it was that^d same hour at which Jesus said to him, “Your son will live,” and he himself believed, and his whole household. ⁵⁴Now this is again a second sign Jesus performed when he^* came from Judea into Galilee.