John 4:39

Plain English Version

The people in the town heard the woman say, “He told me everything I ever did,” and a lot of them believed in Jesus.

Cross References

John 1:37

John’s 2 followers heard him say that about Jesus, so they left John and followed Jesus.

John 11:45

A lot of people were with Mary and Martha that day, and they saw what happened. A lot of them believed in Jesus.

John 4:29

“Come and see a man that told me everything I ever did. Maybe he is the Christ, the special man that God promised to send, the one that we have been waiting for.”

John 4:30

The people heard what she said, and they left the town to go and see Jesus.

John 4:38

And just like that, some of God’s other workers have shared God’s story with people, and now I’m sending you to help those people join God’s family. Somebody else told them about God, and now you will see them join God’s family.”

John 4:40

And so they came from the town to see Jesus, and they asked him to stay with them for a while. So he stayed there for 2 days.

John 4:42

The town people said to the woman, “We heard what you said about this man, and we believed you. But now we listened to him ourselves, and we know for sure that he is the man that God sent into the world to save people.”

John 4:5

They walked a long way, then they got to a water-hole. A long time ago, their grand-father, Jacob, dug that water-hole. It was near the land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. There was a little town called Sikar near that water-hole, so Jesus’s followers went into the town to buy some food. But Jesus was tired, so he sat down next to that water-hole, and he waited there. In the middle of the day, a woman came from the town and got some water from that water-hole. Jesus said to her, “Can you give me a drink?”