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John - ch 4 v 1 - 20
- Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
- (although Jesus himself didn't baptize, but his disciples),
- he left Judea, and departed into Galilee.
- He needed to pass through Samaria.
- So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.
- Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour1.
- A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."
- For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
- The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
- Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
- The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From where then have you that living water?
- Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his livestock?"
- Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,
- but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."
- The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I don't get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw."
- Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."
- The woman answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You said well, 'I have no husband,'
- for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly."
- The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
- Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship."
- noon
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