John 4:35–54

³⁵“Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white ^afor harvest.

³⁶“Even now he who reaps is receiving ^awages and is gathering ^bfruit for ^clife eternal; so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

³⁷“For in this case the saying is true, ‘^aOne sows and another reaps.’

³⁸“I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”

Many Samaritans Believe

³⁹From ^athat city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who bore witness, “^bHe told me all the things that I have done.”

⁴⁰So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they were 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, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One is truly ^athe Savior of the world.”

⁴³And after ^athe two days He went from there into Galilee.

⁴⁴For Jesus Himself bore witness that ^aa prophet has no honor in his own country.

⁴⁵So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, ^ahaving seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves also went to the feast.

Jesus Heals a Royal Official’s Son

⁴⁶Then He came again to ^aCana of Galilee ^bwhere He had made the water wine. And there was a royal official whose son was sick at ^cCapernaum.

⁴⁷When he heard that Jesus had come ^aout of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and was asking Him to come down and heal his son; for he was about to die.

⁴⁸So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see ^1asigns and ^bwonders, you will never believe.”

⁴⁹The royal official ^*said to Him, “¹Sir, come down before my child dies.”

⁵⁰Jesus ^*said to him, “^aGo; your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started on his way.

⁵¹And while he was still going down, his slaves met him, saying that his ¹son was alive.

⁵²So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. Then they said to him, “Yesterday at the ¹seventh hour the fever left him.”

⁵³So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives”; and he himself believed and ^ahis whole household.

⁵⁴This is again a ^asecond ¹sign that Jesus did when He had ^bcome out of Judea into Galilee.