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- ¶ WHEN Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard he made many disciples and was baptizing more people than John,
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- Though Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples;
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- He left Judea and came again to Galilee.
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- ¶ He had to go through Samaritan territory.
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- Then he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the field which Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
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- Now Jacob’s well was there;
and Jesus was tired by the fatigue of the journey, and sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
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- And there came a woman from Samaria to draw water;
and Jesus said to her, Give me water to drink.
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- His disciples had entered into the city to buy food for themselves.
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- The Samaritan woman said to him, How is it?
You are a Jew, and yet you ask me for a drink, who am a Samaritan woman? (For Jews have no social intercourse with Samaritans.)
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- Jesus answered, saying to her, If you only knew the gift of God and who is the man who said to you, Give me a drink, you would have asked him, and he would pave given you living water.
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- The woman said to him, My lord, you have no leather bucket and no deep well;
where do you get the living water?
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- What!
are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well, and he himself drank from it, and his sons and his sheep?
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- Jesus answered, saying to her, Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again;
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- But whoever drinks of the water which I give him shall never thirst;
but the same water which I give him shall become in him a well of water springing up to life everlasting·
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- The woman said to him, My lord, give me of this water, so that I may not thirst again and need not come and draw from here.
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- Jesus said to her, Go and call your husband, and come here.
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- She said to him, I have no husband.
Jesus said to her, You said well, I have no husband;
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- For you have had five husbands;
and the one you now have is not your husband; what you said is true.
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- Then the woman said to him, My lord, I see that you are a prophet.
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- Our forefathers worshipped on this mountain;
and you say the place where men must worship is in Jerusalem.
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- Jesus said to her, Woman, believe me, the time is coming, when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will they worship the Father.
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- You worship what you do not know;
but we worship what we do know; for salvation is from the Jews.
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- But the time is coming, and it is here, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth;
for the Father also desires worshippers such as these.
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- For God is Spirit;
and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
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- The woman said to him, I know that the Messiah (Christ) is coming;
when he is come, he will teach us everything.
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- Jesus said to her, I am he who is speaking to you.
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- ¶ While he was talking, his disciples came and were surprised that he was talking with a married woman;
but no one said to him, What do you want? or, What are you talking with her?
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- The woman then left her water jar, and went to the city and said to the men,
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- Come and see a man who told me everything which I have done;
What! is he the Christ?
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- And the men went out of the city, and came to him.
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- During the interval his disciples begged him, saying, Teacher, eat.
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- But he said to them, I have food to eat of which you do not know.
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- The disciples said among themselves, What!
did any man bring him something to eat?
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- Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
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- Do you not say that after four months comes the harvest?
Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and look at the fields which have turned white and have long been ready for the harvest.
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- And he who reaps receives wages and gathers fruits to life everlasting, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.
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- For in this case the saying is true, One sows and another reaps.
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