John 4:35–54

³⁵Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes ^athe harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, ^bfor they are already white for harvest! ^36cAnd he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that ^dboth he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. ³⁷For in this the saying is true: ^e‘One sows and another reaps.’ ³⁸I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; ^fothers have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”

Christ Witnesses to the Samaritans

³⁹And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him ^gbecause of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all that I ever did.” ⁴⁰So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. ⁴¹And many more believed because of His own ^hword.

⁴²Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for ⁱwe ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed ¹the Christ, the Savior of the world.”

Christ is Received by the Galileans

⁴³Now after the two days He departed from there and went to Galilee. ⁴⁴For ^jJesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. ⁴⁵So when He came to Galilee, the Galileans received Him, ^khaving seen all the things He did in Jerusalem at the feast; ^lfor they also had gone to the feast.

Christ Heals the Nobleman’s Son

⁴⁶So Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee ^mwhere He had made the water wine. And there was a certain ²nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum. ⁴⁷When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and implored Him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death. ⁴⁸Then Jesus said to him, ⁿ“Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will by no means believe.”

⁴⁹The nobleman said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies!”

⁵⁰Jesus said to him, “Go your way; your son lives.” So the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way. ⁵¹And as he was now going down, his servants met him and told him, saying, “Your son lives!”

⁵²Then he inquired of them the hour when he got better. And they said to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.” ⁵³So the father knew that it was at the same hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” And he himself believed, and his whole household.

⁵⁴This again is the second sign Jesus did when He had come out of Judea into Galilee.