John:4

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* When therefore Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John , * (though Jesus himself did not baptize , but his disciples ,) * he left Judaea , and went again to Galilee . * And he must necessarily pass through Samaria . * He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria , called Sychar , near the piece of land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph . * And Jacob ’s well was there . Jesus therefore , being wearied with the journey , was sitting thus by the well . It was about the sixth hour . * There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water . Jesus saith to her , Give me to drink . * For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food . * The Samaritan woman saith to him , How is it that thou , who art a Jew , askest drink of me , who am a Samaritan woman ? For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans . * Jesus answered and said to her , If thou hadst known the gift of God , and who it is that saith to thee , Give me to drink , thou wouldst have asked of him , and he would have given thee living water . * The woman saith to him , Sir , thou hast nothing to draw with , and the well is deep . Whence hast thou the living water ? * Art thou greater than our father Jacob , who gave us the well , and drank thereof himself , and his sons , and his cattle ? * Jesus answered and said to her , Every one that drinketh of this water , will thirst again ; * but whoever drinketh of the water that I will give him , will never thirst ; but the water that I will give him will become within him a well of water springing up to everlasting life . * The woman saith to him , Sir , give me this water , that I may not thirst , nor come hither to draw . * He saith to her , Go , call thy husband , and come hither . * The woman answered , I have no husband . Jesus saith to her , Thou saidst well , that thou hast no husband . * For thou hast had five husbands ; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband ; in this thou hast spoken truly . * The woman saith to him , Sir , I perceive that thou art a prophet . * Our fathers worshipped on this mountain ; and ye say , that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship . * Jesus saith to her , Believe me , woman , the hour is coming , when ye shall neither on this mountain , nor in Jerusalem , worship the Father . * Ye worship that which ye know not ; we worship that which we know ; for salvation is from the Jews . * But the hour is coming , and now is , when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth ; for such worshippers the Father seeketh . * God is a spirit ; and they who worship must worship in spirit and in truth . * The woman saith to him , I know that Messiah cometh (who is called Christ ); when he hath come , he will tell us all things . * Jesus saith to her , I who speak to thee am he . * And upon this his disciples came , and marveled that he was talking with a woman . Yet no one said , What dost thou seek ? or , Why dost thou talk with her ? * The woman then left her water –pot , and went away into the city , and saith to the men , * Come , see a man who told me all things which I have done . Is this the Christ ? * They went out of the city , and came to him . * In the mean while the disciples asked him , saying , Rabbi , eat . * But he said to them , I have food to eat that ye know not of . * The disciples therefore said to one another , Hath any one brought him anything to eat ? * Jesus saith to them , My food is to do the will of him that sent me , and to finish his work . * Do ye not say , There are yet four months , and the harvest cometh ? Lo ! I say to you , lift up your eyes , and look on the fields , that they are white for harvest . * Already is the reaper receiving wages , and gathering fruit unto everlasting life ; that both the sower and the reaper may rejoice together . * And herein is fulfilled the true saying , One soweth , and another reapeth . * I have sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored . Others have labored , and ye have entered into their labor . * And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in him because of the words of the woman , who testified , He told me all things which I have done . * When therefore the Samaritans came to him , they besought him to remain with them ; and he remained there two days . * And many more believed on account of his word ; * and said to the woman , No longer do we believe on account of what thou hast told us ; for we have ourselves heard him , and know that this is in truth the Saviour of the world . * And after the two days he went from that place into Galilee . * For Jesus himself testified , that a prophet hath no honor in his own country . * When therefore he came into Galilee , the Galilaeans received him , having seen all that he did in Jerusalem at the feast ; for they also went to the feast . * So he came again into Cana of Galilee , where he made the water wine . And there was a certain nobleman , whose son was sick , at Capernaum . * He , having heard that Jesus had come out of Judaea into Galilee , went to him , and asked him to go down and heal his son ; for he was at the point of death . * Then Jesus said to him , Unless ye see signs and wonders , ye will not believe . * The nobleman saith to him , Sir , come down before my child die . * Jesus saith to him , Go ; thy son liveth . The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him , and went away . * And as he was now going down , the servants met him , and brought word that his child was living . * Then he inquired of them the hour when he began to mend . And they said to him , Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him . * So the father knew that it was in the same hour in which Jesus said to him , Thy son is living . And he himself believed , and his whole house . * This again , a second sign , Jesus wrought , when he had come out of Judaea into Galilee .

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