John:4:1-26

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* When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John , * (Though Jesus himself baptized not , but his disciples ,) * He left Judaea , and departed again into Galilee . * And he must needs go through Samaria . * Then cometh he to a city of Samaria , which is called Sychar , near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph . * Now Jacob 's well was there . Jesus therefore , being wearied with his journey , sat thus on the well : and it was about the sixth hour . * There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water : Jesus saith unto her , Give me to drink . * (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat .) * Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him , How is it that thou , being a Jew , askest drink of me , which am a woman of Samaria ? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans . * Jesus answered and said unto her , If thou knewest the gift of God , and who it is that saith to thee , Give me to drink ; thou wouldest have asked of him , and he would have given thee living water . * The woman saith unto him , Sir , thou hast nothing to draw with , and the well is deep : from whence then hast thou that living water ? * Art thou greater than our father Jacob , which gave us the well , and drank thereof himself , and his children , and his cattle ? * Jesus answered and said unto her , Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again : * But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst ; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life . * The woman saith unto him , Sir , give me this water , that I thirst not , neither come hither to draw . * Jesus saith unto her , Go , call thy husband , and come hither . * The woman answered and said , I have no husband . Jesus said unto her , Thou hast well said , I have no husband : * For thou hast had five husbands ; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband : in that saidst thou truly . * The woman saith unto him , Sir , I perceive that thou art a prophet . * Our fathers worshipped in this mountain ; and ye say , that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship . * Jesus saith unto her , Woman , believe me , the hour cometh , when ye shall neither in this mountain , nor yet at Jerusalem , worship the Father . * Ye worship ye know not what : we know what we worship : for salvation is of the Jews . * But the hour cometh , and now is , when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth : for the Father seeketh such to worship him . * God is a Spirit : and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth . * The woman saith unto him , I know that Messias cometh , which is called Christ : when he is come , he will tell us all things . * Jesus saith unto her , I that speak unto thee am he .

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