38. I sent you to harvest a crop that you did not work for. Others did the work, and you get the profit from their work.”
39. Many of the Samaritans in that town believed in Jesus. They believed because of what the woman said: “He told me everything I have ever done.”
40. The Samaritans came to Jesus and begged him to stay with them. So he stayed there two days.
41. Many more believed because of the things he said.
42. They said to the woman, “First we believed in Jesus because of what you told us. But now we believe because we heard him ourselves. We know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”
43. Two days later, Jesus left and went to Galilee.
44. (Jesus had said before that a prophet is not respected in his own country.)
45. When Jesus arrived in Galilee, the people there welcomed him. They had seen all the things he did at the Passover Feast in Jerusalem. They had been at the Passover Feast, too.
46. Jesus went to visit Cana in Galilee again. This is where Jesus had changed the water into wine. One of the king’s important officers lived in the city of Capernaum. This man’s son was sick.
47. The man heard that Jesus had come from Judea and was now in Galilee. He went to Jesus and begged him to come to Capernaum and heal his son. His son was almost dead.