tcent - John:4:5-38

tcent@John:4:5 @ So he came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

tcent@John:4:6 @ Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

tcent@John:4:7 @ There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, »Give me a drink.«

tcent@John:4:8 @ For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

tcent@John:4:9 @ Then the woman of Samaria said to him, »How is it that you, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?« For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

tcent@John:4:10 @ Jesus answered her, »If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, Give me a drink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.«

tcent@John:4:11 @ The woman said to him, »Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water?

tcent@John:4:12 @ Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his cattle?«

tcent@John:4:13 @ Jesus answered her, »Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,

tcent@John:4:14 @ but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. The water that I shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.«

tcent@John:4:15 @ The woman said to him, »Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.«

tcent@John:4:16 @ Jesus said to her, »Go, call your husband, and come here.«

tcent@John:4:17 @ The woman answered, »I have no husband.« Jesus said to her, »You are right in saying, I have no husband;

tcent@John:4:18 @ for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly.«

tcent@John:4:19 @ The woman said to him, »Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

tcent@John:4:20 @ Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.«

tcent@John:4:21 @ Jesus said to her, »Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

tcent@John:4:22 @ You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.

tcent@John:4:23 @ But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him.

tcent@John:4:24 @ God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.«

tcent@John:4:25 @ The woman said to him, »I know that Messiah is coming« (who is called Christ). »When he comes, he will tell us all things.«

tcent@John:4:26 @ Jesus said to her, »I who speak to you am he.«

tcent@John:4:27 @ Just then his disciples came. And they marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, »What do you wish?« or, »Why are you talking with her?«

tcent@John:4:28 @ Then the woman left her water jar, and went away into the city, and said to the people,

tcent@John:4:29 @ »Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?«

tcent@John:4:30 @ They went out of the city and came to him.

tcent@John:4:31 @ Meanwhile his disciples urged him, saying, »Rabbi, eat.«

tcent@John:4:32 @ But he said to them, »I have food to eat of which you do not know.«

tcent@John:4:33 @ So the disciples said to one another, »Has any one brought him food?«

tcent@John:4:34 @ Jesus said to them, »My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work.

tcent@John:4:35 @ Do you not say, There are yet four months and then comes the harvest? Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields! They are already white for harvest.

tcent@John:4:36 @ And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together.

tcent@John:4:37 @ For here the saying is true, One sows and another reaps.

tcent@John:4:38 @ I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.«