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The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptising more disciples than John, |
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although in fact it was not Jesus who baptised, but his disciples. |
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When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee. |
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Now he had to go through Samaria. |
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So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. |
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Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. |
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When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?" |
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(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) |
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The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) |
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Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." |
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"Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? |
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Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?" |
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Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, |
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but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." |
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The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water." |
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He told her, "Go, call your husband and come back." |
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"I have no husband," she replied. Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband. |
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The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true." |
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"Sir," the woman said, "I can see that you are a prophet. |
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Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem." |
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Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. |
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You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. |
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Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks. |
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God is spirit, and his worshippers must worship in spirit and in truth." |
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The woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us." |
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Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am he." |
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Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no-one asked, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?" |
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Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, |
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"Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?" |
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They came out of the town and made their way towards him. |
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Meanwhile his disciples urged him, "Rabbi, eat something." |
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But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about." |
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Then his disciples said to each other, "Could someone have brought him food?" |
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"My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. |
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Do you not say,`Four months more and then the harvest'? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. |
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Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. |
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Thus the saying`One sows and another reaps' is true. |
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I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labour." |
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Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did." |
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So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. |
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And because of his words many more became believers. |
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They said to the woman, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Saviour of the world." |
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After the two days he left for Galilee. |
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(Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honour in his own country.) |
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When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, for they also had been there. |
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Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. |
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When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death. |
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"Unless you people see miraculous signs and wonders," Jesus told him, "you will never believe." |
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The royal official said, "Sir, come down before my child dies." |
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Jesus replied, "You may go. Your son will live." The man took Jesus at his word and departed. |
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While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living. |
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When he enquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, "The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour." |
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Then the father realised that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live." So he and all his household believed. |
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This was the second miraculous sign that Jesus performed, having come from Judea to Galilee. |
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