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# John 4

John 4 is chapter 4 of 21 in the Gospel of John. Here are all 54 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> Christ talks with the Samaritan woman. He heals the ruler's son.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## John 4 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And so, when Jesus realized that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made more disciples and baptized more than John,
2. (though Jesus himself was not baptizing, but only his disciples)
3. he left behind Judea, and he traveled again to Galilee.
4. Now he needed to cross through Samaria.
5. Therefore, he went into a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the estate which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6. And Jacob’s well was there. And so Jesus, being tired from the journey, was sitting in a certain way on the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7. A woman of Samaria arrived to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me to drink.”
8. For his disciples had gone into the city in order to buy food.
9. And so, that Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, are requesting a drink from me, though I am a Samaritan woman?” For the Jews do not associate with the Samaritans.
10. Jesus responded and said to her: “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, ‘Give me to drink,’ perhaps you would have made a request of him, and he would have given you living water.”
11. The woman said to him: “Lord, you do not have anything with which to draw water, and the well is deep. From where, then, do you have living water?
12. Surely, you are not greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and who drank from it, with his sons and his cattle?”
13. Jesus responded and said to her: “All who drink from this water will thirst again. But whoever shall drink from the water that I will give to him will not thirst for eternity.
14. Instead, the water that I will give to him will become in him a fountain of water, springing up into eternal life.”
15. The woman said to him, “Lord, give me this water, so that I may not thirst and may not come here to draw water.”
16. Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and return here.”
17. The woman responded and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her: “You have spoken well, in saying, ‘I have no husband.’
18. For you have had five husbands, but he whom you have now is not your husband. You have spoken this in truth.”
19. The woman said to him: “Lord, I see that you are a Prophet.
20. Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you say that Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”
21. Jesus said to her: “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you shall worship the Father, neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem.
22. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know. For salvation is from the Jews.
23. But the hour is coming, and it is now, when true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeks such persons who may worship him.
24. God is Spirit. And so, those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.”
25. The woman said to him: “I know that the Messiah is coming (who is called the Christ). And then, when he will have arrived, he will announce everything to us.”
26. Jesus said to her: “I am he, the one who is speaking with you.”
27. And then his disciples arrived. And they wondered that he was speaking with the woman. Yet no one said: “What are you seeking?” or, “Why are you talking with her?”
28. And so the woman left behind her water jar and went into the city. And she said to the men there:
29. “Come and see a man who has told me all the things that I have done. Is he not the Christ?”
30. Therefore, they went out of the city and came to him.
31. Meanwhile, the disciples petitioned him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
32. But he said to them, “I have food to eat which you do not know.”
33. Therefore, the disciples said to one another, “Could someone have brought him something to eat?”
34. Jesus said to them: “My food is to do the will of the One who sent me, so that I may perfect his work.
35. Do you not say, ‘There are still four months, and then the harvest arrives?’ Behold, I say to you: Lift up your eyes and look at the countryside; for it is already ripe for the harvest.
36. For he who reaps, receives wages and gathers fruit unto eternal life, so that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
37. For in this the word is true: that it is one who sows, and it is another who reaps.
38. I have sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”
39. Now many of the Samaritans from that city believed in him, because of the word of the woman who was offering testimony: “For he told me all the things that I have done.”
40. Therefore, when the Samaritans had come to him, they petitioned him to lodge there. And he lodged there for two days.
41. And many more believed in him, because of his own word.
42. And they said to the woman: “Now we believe, not because of your speech, but because we ourselves have heard him, and so we know that he is truly the Savior of the world.”
43. Then, after two days, he departed from there, and he traveled into Galilee.
44. For Jesus himself offered testimony that a Prophet has no honor in his own country.
45. And so, when he had arrived in Galilee, the Galileans received him, because they had seen all that he had done at Jerusalem, in the day of the feast. For they also went to the feast day.
46. Then he went again into Cana of Galilee, where he made water into wine. And there was a certain ruler, whose son was sick at Capernaum.
47. Since he had heard that Jesus came to Galilee from Judea, he sent to him and begged him to come down and heal his son. For he was beginning to die.
48. Therefore, Jesus said to him, “Unless you have seen signs and wonders, you do not believe.”
49. The ruler said to him, “Lord, come down before my son dies.”
50. Jesus said to him, “Go, your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and so he went away.
51. Then, as he was going down, his servants met him. And they reported to him, saying that his son was alive.
52. Therefore, he asked them at which hour he had become better. And they said to him, “Yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him.”
53. Then the father realized that it was at the same hour that Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” And both he and his entire household believed.
54. This next sign was the second that Jesus accomplished, after he had arrived in Galilee from Judea.

## John 4 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Ut ergo cognovit Jesus quia audierunt pharisæi quod Jesus plures discipulos facit, et baptizat, quam Joannes
2. (quamquam Jesus non baptizaret, sed discipuli ejus),
3. reliquit Judæam, et abiit iterum in Galilæam.
4. Oportebat autem eum transire per Samariam.
5. Venit ergo in civitatem Samariæ, quæ dicitur Sichar, juxta prædium quod dedit Jacob Joseph filio suo.
6. Erat autem ibi fons Jacob. Jesus ergo fatigatus ex itinere, sedebat sic supra fontem. Hora erat quasi sexta.
7. Venit mulier de Samaria haurire aquam. Dicit ei Jesus: Da mihi bibere.
8. (Discipuli enim ejus abierant in civitatem ut cibos emerent.)
9. Dicit ergo ei mulier illa Samaritana: Quomodo tu, Judæus cum sis, bibere a me poscis, quæ sum mulier Samaritana? non enim coutuntur Judæi Samaritanis.
10. Respondit Jesus, et dixit ei: Si scires donum Dei, et quis est qui dicit tibi: Da mihi bibere, tu forsitan petisses ab eo, et dedisset tibi aquam vivam.
11. Dicit ei mulier: Domine, neque in quo haurias habes, et puteus altus est: unde ergo habes aquam vivam?
12. Numquid tu major es patre nostro Jacob, qui dedit nobis puteum, et ipse ex eo bibit, et filii ejus, et pecora ejus?
13. Respondit Jesus, et dixit ei: Omnis qui bibit ex aqua hac, sitiet iterum; qui autem biberit ex aqua quam ego dabo ei, non sitiet in æternum:
14. sed aqua quam ego dabo ei, fiet in eo fons aquæ salientis in vitam æternam.
15. Dicit ad eum mulier: Domine, da mihi hanc aquam, ut non sitiam, neque veniam huc haurire.
16. Dicit ei Jesus: Vade, voca virum tuum, et veni huc.
17. Respondit mulier, et dixit: Non habeo virum. Dicit ei Jesus: Bene dixisti, quia non habeo virum;
18. quinque enim viros habuisti, et nunc, quem habes, non est tuus vir: hoc vere dixisti.
19. Dicit ei mulier: Domine, video quia propheta es tu.
20. Patres nostri in monte hoc adoraverunt, et vos dicitis, quia Jerosolymis est locus ubi adorare oportet.
21. Dicit ei Jesus: Mulier, crede mihi, quia venit hora, quando neque in monte hoc, neque in Jerosolymis adorabitis Patrem.
22. Vos adoratis quod nescitis: nos adoramus quod scimus, quia salus ex Judæis est.
23. Sed venit hora, et nunc est, quando veri adoratores adorabunt Patrem in spiritu et veritate. Nam et Pater tales quærit, qui adorent eum.
24. Spiritus est Deus: et eos qui adorant eum, in spiritu et veritate oportet adorare.
25. Dicit ei mulier: Scio quia Messias venit (qui dicitur Christus): cum ergo venerit ille, nobis annuntiabit omnia.
26. Dicit ei Jesus: Ego sum, qui loquor tecum.
27. Et continuo venerunt discipuli ejus, et mirabantur quia cum muliere loquebatur. Nemo tamen dixit: Quid quæris? aut, Quid loqueris cum ea?
28. Reliquit ergo hydriam suam mulier, et abiit in civitatem, et dicit illis hominibus:
29. Venite, et videte hominem qui dixit mihi omnia quæcumque feci: numquid ipse est Christus?
30. Exierunt ergo de civitate et veniebant ad eum.
31. Interea rogabant eum discipuli, dicentes: Rabbi, manduca.
32. Ille autem dicit eis: Ego cibum habeo manducare, quem vos nescitis.
33. Dicebant ergo discipuli ad invicem: Numquid aliquis attulit ei manducare?
34. Dicit eis Jesus: Meus cibus est ut faciam voluntatem ejus qui misit me, ut perficiam opus ejus.
35. Nonne vos dicitis quod adhuc quatuor menses sunt, et messis venit? Ecce dico vobis: levate oculos vestros, et videte regiones, quia albæ sunt jam ad messem.
36. Et qui metit, mercedem accipit, et congregat fructum in vitam æternam: ut et qui seminat, simul gaudeat, et qui metit.
37. In hoc enim est verbum verum: quia alius est qui seminat, et alius est qui metit.
38. Ego misi vos metere quod vos non laborastis: alii laboraverunt, et vos in labores eorum introistis.
39. Ex civitate autem illa multi crediderunt in eum Samaritanorum, propter verbum mulieris testimonium perhibentis: Quia dixit mihi omnia quæcumque feci.
40. Cum venissent ergo ad illum Samaritani, rogaverunt eum ut ibi maneret. Et mansit ibi duos dies.
41. Et multo plures crediderunt in eum propter sermonem ejus.
42. Et mulieri dicebant: Quia jam non propter tuam loquelam credimus: ipsi enim audivimus, et scimus quia hic est vere Salvator mundi.
43. Post duos autem dies exiit inde, et abiit in Galilæam.
44. Ipse enim Jesus testimonium perhibuit, quia propheta in sua patria honorem non habet.
45. Cum ergo venisset in Galilæam, exceperunt eum Galilæi, cum omnia vidissent quæ fecerat Jerosolymis in die festo: et ipsi enim venerant ad diem festum.
46. Venit ergo iterum in Cana Galilææ, ubi fecit aquam vinum. Et erat quidam regulus, cujus filius infirmabatur Capharnaum.
47. Hic cum audisset quia Jesus adveniret a Judæa in Galilæam, abiit ad eum, et rogabat eum ut descenderet, et sanaret filium ejus: incipiebat enim mori.
48. Dixit ergo Jesus ad eum: Nisi signa et prodigia videritis, non creditis.
49. Dicit ad eum regulus: Domine, descende priusquam moriatur filius meus.
50. Dicit ei Jesus: Vade, filius tuus vivit. Credidit homo sermoni quem dixit ei Jesus, et ibat.
51. Jam autem eo descendente, servi occurrerunt ei, et nuntiaverunt dicentes, quia filius ejus viveret.
52. Interrogabat ergo horam ab eis in qua melius habuerit. Et dixerunt ei: Quia heri hora septima reliquit eum febris.
53. Cognovit ergo pater, quia illa hora erat in qua dixit ei Jesus: Filius tuus vivit; et credidit ipse et domus ejus tota.
54. Hoc iterum secundum signum fecit Jesus, cum venisset a Judæa in Galilæam.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- CCC ¶ 463: The Son of God Became Man ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 672: He Will Come Again in Glory ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 544: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 733: The Spirit and the Church In the Last Days ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 516: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 457: The Son of God Became Man ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1137: Who Celebrates? ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2560: Prayer in the Christian Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2561: Prayer in the Christian Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 694: The Name, Titles, and Symbols of the Holy Spirit ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 728: The Spirit of Christ in the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 735: The Spirit and the Church In the Last Days ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2652: At the Wellsprings of Prayer ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1999: Grace ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 706: God's Spirit and Word in the Time of the Promises ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1828: The Theological Virtues ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 586: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 528: The Mysteries of Christ's Life ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 586: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 1179: Where is the Liturgy Celebrated? ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 439: Christ ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 606: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2611: In the Fullness of Time ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 2824: "Thy Will Be Done on Earth as It is in Heaven" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## The saints

- “My Love has been crucified, and there is no fire in me desiring to be fed; but there is within me a water that lives and speaks, saying to me inwardly, Come to the Father.” — St. Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the Romans, 7, c. 107 (On this theme: verse 14)
- “Our entire perfection consists in loving God, and the perfection of love consists in uniting our will with that of God.” — St. Alphonsus Liguori, Uniformity with God's Will, 1755 (On this theme: verse 34)
- “The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner He wills it; and thirdly, to do it because it is His will.” — St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Conferences to the Sisters of Charity, c. 1815 (On this theme: verse 34)

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 20: “This mountain” … Garizim, where the Samaritans had their schismatical temple.

## Read at Mass (US)

- Mon, Mar 8, 2027: Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent — Gospel, John 4:43-54
- Mon, Mar 27, 2028 (computed): Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent — Gospel, John 4:43-54

Citations as published in the USCCB liturgical calendar (principal Mass, first option). Dates after May 31, 2027 are computed by Bless from the US Lectionary cycle — confirm with your parish.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).