The Gospel of John 4:27-54

And thusly we continue Part 2 of John Chapter 4...

4:27 At this point His disciples came, and they were amazed that He had been speaking with a woman, yet no one said, "What do You seek?" or "Why do you speak with her?"
28 So the woman left her waterpot, and went into the city and said to the men,
29 "Come and see a man who told me all things that I have done; this is not the Christ, is it?"
30 They went out of the city, and were coming to Him.
31 Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."
32 But He said to them, "I have food that you do not know about."
33 So the disciples were saying to one another, "No one brought Him anything to eat, did he?"
34 Jesus said to them "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to accomplish His work.
35 "Do you not say, 'There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest?' Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white for harvest.
36 "Already he who reaps is receiving wages and is gathering fruit for life eternal; so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
37 "For in this case the saying is true, 'One sows and another reaps'.
38 "I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor."
39 From that city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, "He told me all things that I have done."
40 So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they were asking Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.
41 Many more believed because of His word;
42 and they were saying to the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, because we have heard for ourselves and know that this One is indeed the Savior of the world."
43 After the two days He went forth from there into Galilee.
44 For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.
45 So when He came into Galilee, the Galileans received Him, having seen all the things that He did in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves also went to the feast.
46 Therefore He came again to Cana of Galilee where He had made the water into wine. And there was a royal official whose son was sick in Capernaum.
47 When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to Him and was imploring Him to come down and heal his son; for he was at the point of death.
48 So Jesus said to him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you simply will not believe."
49 The royal official said to Him, "Sir, comedown before my child dies."
50 Jesus said to him, "Go; your son lives." The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him and started off.
51 As he was now going down, his slaves met him, saying that his son was living.
52 So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. Then they said to him, "Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him."
53 So the father knew it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, "Your son lives"; and he himself believed and his whole household.
54 This is again a second sign that Jesus performed when He came out of Judea into Galilee. -John 4:27-54

Firstly, Jesus treated woman as equals and paid them just as much attention when He came across them as He did men. Kudos and mad props.

Secondly, because He talked to this woman, He didn't have to go around preaching to anyone -they heard the woman's testimony and asked went to Jesus ad asked Him to stay.

Meanwhile His disciples were concerned about His eating habits -in that He wasn't eating. This is something I've experienced personally in my own life. When I am caught up in drawing or concentrating on an important project, I'll ignore my hunger. That's why they call it "starving artist". You're priorities shift and whatever you are focusing your time and energy on takes precedence over your physical state. In fact, I'd say that during these times I considered my physical being to be an annoying inconvenience that I really didn't care about. It was also annoying when my mom would tell me I should go eat something, like I ha to be reminded. I would shrug off her suggestion thinking, I have more important things to be focusing on. Jesus seems to be in the same state. "How can you think of food at a time like this?"

Jesus was focused on the fact that people were ready to listen and be baptized to hear God's Word and receive the Spirit. "Already he who reaps is receiving wages and is gathering fruit for life eternal; so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. For in this case the saying is true, 'One sows and another reaps'. I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor." Here He stresses a point that bothers a lot of people still today -Anyone can be Saved at Anytime. This seriously bugs some people. If someone has been a Christian for  a majority of their life and someone new comes on the scene and becomes a new Christian and is then considered to be an equal... it bugs some people like no other. They don't feel newbies deserve to be considered equal. And yet everyone is equal in the Eyes of the Lord. And here Jesus illustrates this point.

Next Jesus went to Galilee and here he states that "a prophet has no honor in his own country." I forget what this means exactly -it's one of two things. Either 1. It means that there is no point for a prophet to preach in an area where he is already accepted because it's redundant to conquer territories that you have already conquered, or 2. No one in the country a prophet came from will take him seriously -kind of like when people kept telling Jesus He couldn't be the One since he came from a little nearby shanty town and was a carpenter.

Anyways Jesus went back to Cana -the place where His first public miracle with the wine occurred- and He made another miracle by bringing a man's son back to perfect health. Jesus also mentions His frustration with the fact that Everyone wants to see a Miracle, but Few ever opt to believe just on mere faith alone. It's kind of disheartening. He must have worried that after He was gone and couldn't perform Miracles anymore, people might not feel compelled to believe on their own. Actually that is kind of an issue people have today. They want Proof, and they can't have it. They need Faith, but they don't use it.