John 4:31–54

³¹Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, eat something.” ³²But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” ³³So the disciples said to one another, “Surely no one has brought him something to eat?” ³⁴Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work.^{* 35}Do you not say, ‘Four months more, then comes the harvest’? But I tell you, look around you, and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting.^{* 36}The reaper is already receiving^o wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.^{* 37}For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’^{* 38}I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

³⁹Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I have ever done.”^{* 40}So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. ⁴¹And many more believed because of his word. ⁴²They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world.”^*

Jesus Returns to Galilee

⁴³When the two days were over, he went from that place to Galilee^{* 44}(for Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in the prophet’s own country).^{* 45}When he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the festival, for they, too, had gone to the festival.^*

Jesus Heals an Official’s Son

⁴⁶Then he came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had changed the water into wine. Now there was a royal official whose son lay ill in Capernaum.^{* 47}When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged him to come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.^{* 48}Then Jesus said to him, “Unless you^p see signs and wonders you will not believe.”^{* 49}The official said to him, “Sir,^q come down before my little boy dies.” ⁵⁰Jesus said to him, “Go; your son will live.”^r The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started on his way. ⁵¹As he was going down, his slaves met him and told him that his child was alive. ⁵²So he asked them the hour when he began to recover, and they said to him, “Yesterday at one in the afternoon the fever left him.” ⁵³The father realized that this was the hour when Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.”^s So he himself believed, along with his whole household.^{* 54}Now this was the second sign that Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee.^*