36. Even now the harvest workers are receiving their reward by gathering a harvest that brings eternal life. Then everyone who planted the seed and everyone who harvests the crop will celebrate together.
37. So the saying proves true, “Some plant the seed, and others harvest the crop.”
38. I am sending you to harvest crops in fields where others have done all the hard work.
39. A lot of Samaritans in that town put their faith in Jesus because the woman had said, “This man told me everything I have ever done.”
40. They came and asked him to stay in their town, and he stayed on for two days.
41. Many more Samaritans put their faith in Jesus because of what they heard him say.
42. They told the woman, “We no longer have faith in Jesus just because of what you told us. We have heard him ourselves, and we are certain that he is the Saviour of the world!”
43-44. Jesus had said, “Prophets are honoured everywhere, except in their own country.” Then two days later he left
45. and went to Galilee. The people there welcomed him, because they had gone to the festival in Jerusalem and had seen everything he had done.
46. While Jesus was in Galilee, he returned to the village of Cana, where he had turned the water into wine. There was an official in Capernaum whose son was sick.
47. And when the man heard that Jesus had come from Judea, he went and begged him to keep his son from dying.
48. Jesus told the official, “You won't have faith unless you see miracles and wonders!”
49. The man replied, “Lord, please come before my son dies!”
50. Jesus then said, “Your son will live. Go on home to him.” The man believed Jesus and set off to return home.
51. Some of the official's servants met him along the road and told him, “Your son is better!”
52. He asked them when the boy got better, and they answered, “The fever left him yesterday at one o'clock.”
53. The boy's father realized that at one o'clock the day before, Jesus had told him, “Your son will live!” So the man and everyone in his family put their faith in Jesus.
54. This was the second miracle that Jesus performed after he left Judea and went to Galilee.