John:4

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* Then when the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus made more disciples and baptized more than John * (though truly Jesus Himself did not baptize , but His disciples ), * He left Judea and went away into Galilee again . * And it was needful for Him to pass through Samaria . * And He came to a Samaritan city called Sychar , near the piece of land Jacob gave to his son Joseph . * And Jacob 's fountain was there . Then being wearied by the journey , Jesus sat thus on the fountain . It was about the sixth hour . * A woman came out of Samaria to draw water . Jesus said to her , Give Me some to drink . * For His disciples had gone away into the city that they might buy provisions . * Then the Samaritan woman said to Him , How do you , being a Jew , ask to drink from me , I being a Samaritan woman ? For Jews do not associate with Samaritans . * Jesus answered and said to her , If you knew the gift of God , and who is the One saying to you , Give Me to drink , you would have asked Him , and He would give you living water . * The woman said to Him , Sir , you have no vessel , and the well is deep . From where then do you have living water ? * Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the well , and he and his sons and his livestock drank out of it ? * Jesus answered and said to her , Everyone drinking of this water will thirst again ; * but whoever may drink of the water which I will give him will never ever thirst , but the water which I will give to him will become a fountain of water in him , springing up into everlasting life . * The woman said to Him , Sir , give me this water , that I may not thirst , nor come here to draw . * Jesus said to her , Go , call your husband and come here . * And the woman answered and said , I have no husband . Jesus said to her , Well did you say , I have no husband . * For you have had five husbands , and now he whom you have is not your husband . You have spoken this truly . * The woman said to Him , Sir , I perceive that you are a prophet . * Our fathers worshiped in this mountain , and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary to worship . * Jesus said to her , Woman , believe Me that an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem . * You worship what you do not know ; we worship what we know , for salvation is of the Jews . * But an hour is coming , and now is , when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth . For the Father also seeks such ones that worship Him . * God is a spirit , and the ones worshiping Him must worship in spirit and truth . * The woman said to Him , I know that Messiah is coming , the One called Christ . When that One comes , He will announce to us all things . * Jesus said to her , I AM , the One speaking to you . * And on this , His disciples came and marveled that He was speaking with a woman . However , no one said , What do you seek ? Or , Why do You speak with her ? * Then the woman left her waterpot and went away into the city and said to the men , * Come , see a Man who told me all things , whatever I did . Is this One not the Christ ? * Therefore , they went out of the city and came to Him . * But in the meantime the disciples asked Him , saying , Rabbi , eat ? * But He said to them , I have food to eat which you do not know . * Then the disciples said to one another , No one brought Him food to eat ? * Jesus said to them , My food is that I should do the will of Him who sent Me , and that I may finish His work . * Do you do not say , It is yet four months and the harvest comes ? Behold , I say to you , Lift up your eyes and behold the fields , for they are already white to harvest . * And the one reaping receives reward , and gathers fruit to everlasting life , so that both the one sowing and the one reaping may rejoice together . * For in this the word is true , that another is the one sowing , and another the one reaping . * I sent you to reap what you have not labored over . Others have labored , and you have entered into their labor . * And many of the Samaritans out of that city believed into Him , because of the word of the woman testifying , He told me all things , whatever I did . * Then as the Samaritans came to Him , they asked Him to remain with them . And He remained there two days . * And many more believed through His word . * And they said to the woman , We no longer believe because of your saying ; for we ourselves have heard , and we know that this One is truly the Savior of the world , the Christ . * But after the two days , He went out from there , and went away into Galilee . * For Jesus Himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own native place . * Therefore , when He came into Galilee , the Galileans received Him , seeing all things which He did in Jerusalem at the Feast . For they also went to the Feast . * Then Jesus came again to Cana of Galilee where He made the water wine . And there was a certain nobleman whose son was sick in Capernaum . * Hearing that Jesus was coming from Judea into Galilee , this one went out to Him and asked Him that He would come and heal his son , for he was about to die . * Then Jesus said to him , Unless you see signs and wonders , you will not at all believe . * The nobleman said to Him , Sir , come down before my child dies . * Jesus said to him , Go ! Your son lives . And the man believed the word which Jesus said to him , and went away . * But already , as he was going down , his slaves met him and reported , saying , Your child lives . * He then asked from them the hour in which he had gotten better . And they said to him , Yesterday , at the seventh hour , the fever left him . * Then the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him , Your son lives . And he himself , and his whole household , believed . * Again , this second miracle Jesus did , coming from Judea into Galilee .

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