MODERN LITERAL VERSION

4:1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus is making* and immersing* more disciples than John,
4:2 (although Jesus himself did not immerse*, but his disciples did ),
4:3 he left Judea and went away into Galilee.

4:4 And it was essential for him to go through Samaria.
{Jn 4:5-43 Jacob's Well and at Sychar.}

4:5 So he comes to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, close to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph,
4:6 and Jacob's well was there. Therefore, Jesus, being fatigued from his journey, sat thus by the well. It was approximately the sixth hour.
4:7 A woman from Samaria comes to dip-out water. Jesus says to her, Give me water to drink.
4:8 For* his disciples had gone away into the city, that* they might buy nourishment.

4:9 Therefore the Samaritan woman says to him, How is it that you, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, who is a Samaritan woman? (For* Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

4:10 Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God and who it is that says to you, Give me water to drink; you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.

4:11 The woman says to him, Lord, you have no bucket and the well is deep. Therefore from where do you have living water?
4:12 You are not greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank out of it himself and his sons and his livestock, are you?

4:13 Jesus answered and said to her, Everyone who drinks from this water will be thirsty again
4:14 but whoever is drinking from the water that I will give him may never* be thirsty, but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water leaping up to everlasting life.

4:15 The woman says to him, Lord, give me this water, that* I may not be thirsty, nor come all the way here to dip-out water.

4:16 Jesus says to her, Go, summon your husband, and come here.

4:17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband.
Jesus says to her, You said well, I have no husband
4:18 for* you have had five husbands, and he whom you have now is not your husband. You have said this truly.

4:19 The woman says to him, Lord, I view that you are a prophet.
4:20 Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you* Jews say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

4:21 Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, the hour is coming, when you* will worship the Father, neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem.
4:22 You* worship what you* do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.
4:23 But the hour is coming and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for* the Father is seeking such who are worshiping him.
4:24 God is a Spirit, and it is essential for those who are worshiping him to worship in spirit and truth.

4:25 The woman says to him, I know that the Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). Whenever he has come, he will proclaim all things to us.

4:26 Jesus says to her, I who speak to you, am he.

4:27 And his disciples came upon this, and marveled that he was speaking with a woman; nevertheless, no one said, What are you seeking? Or, Why are you talking with her?

4:28 So the woman left her water pot and went away into the city, and says to the people,
4:29 Come-here. See a man, who told me all things, as many things as I have done. This can not be the Christ, can it?
4:30 They went out of the city and were coming to him.

4:31 But in the time in between, the disciples were asking him, saying, Rabbi, eat.

4:32 But he said to them, I have food to eat that you* do not know .

4:33 Therefore the disciples said to one another, Has anyone brought him anything to eat?

4:34 Jesus says to them, My food is that* I should be doing the will of him who sent me, and should finish his work.
4:35 Do you not say, There are still four months and then comes the harvest. Behold, I say to you*, Lift up your* eyes and look at the farmland, because they are already white for the harvest.
4:36 And he who is reaping receives wages and gathers fruit to everlasting life; that* he who is sowing and he who is reaping may rejoice in unison.
4:37 For* in this is the true saying, One is sowing and another is reaping.
4:38 I sent you* to reap that which you* have not labored; others have labored, and you* have entered into their labor.

4:39 And many out of the Samaritans from that city believed in him, because of the word of the woman, who was testifying, He told me all things, as many things as I have done.
4:40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they requested him to abide with them, and he remained there two days.
4:41 And many more believed because of his word;
4:42 and they said to the woman, We believe no longer because of your speech; for* we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is truly the Savior of the world, the Christ.

4:43 And after the two days, he went forth from there and went into Galilee.
4:44 For* Jesus himself testified, that a prophet has no honor in his own fatherland.
{Lk 4:14a & Jn 4:44-45 Arrival in Galilee.}

4:45 So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans accepted him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast; for* they had also gone to the feast.

4:46 Therefore, Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee, where he made* the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick in Capernaum.
4:47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him, and asked him that* he might come down and might heal his son; for* he was about to die.
4:48 Therefore Jesus said to him, If you* do not see signs and wonders, you* may never* believe.

4:49 The nobleman says to him, Lord, come down here before my child dies.

4:50 Jesus says to him, Go-onward; your son lives.
And the man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he traveled on.
4:51 And as he was going down, already his bondservants met him and reported, saying, that his boy lives.
4:52 Therefore, he inquired from them the hour when he had improved. And they said to him, Yesterday, in the seventh hour, the fever left him .
4:53 Therefore the father knew that it was in that hour in which Jesus said to him, Your son lives. And he himself, and his whole house believed.
4:54 This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.