rkjnt John:4:5-38 SEEK
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Then he came to a city of Samaria ,
which is called Sychar ,
near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph .
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Now Jacob '
s well was there .
Jesus ,
therefore ,
being wearied from his journey ,
sat by the well :
and it was about the sixth hour .
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There came a woman of Samaria to draw water :
Jesus said to her ,
Give me a drink .
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For his disciples had gone away to the city to buy food .)
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Then the woman of Samaria said to him ,
How is it that you ,
being a Jew ,
ask for a drink from me ,
a woman of Samaria ?
for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans .
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Jesus answered and said to her ,
If you knew the gift of God ,
and who it is who says to you ,
Give me a drink ;
you would have asked him ,
and he would have given you living water .
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The woman said to him ,
Sir ,
you have nothing to draw with ,
and the well is deep :
from where do you get that living water ?
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Are you greater than our father Jacob ,
who gave us the well ,
and drank from it himself ,
and his children ,
and his cattle ?
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Jesus answered and said to her ,
Whoever drinks of this water shall thirst again :
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But whoever drinks 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 eternal life .
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The woman said to him ,
Sir ,
give me this water ,
that I may not thirst ,
nor come here to draw .
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Jesus said to her ,
Go ,
call your husband ,
and come here .
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The woman answered and said ,
I have no husband .
Jesus said to her ,
You have well said ,
I have no husband :
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For you have had five husbands ;
and he whom you now have is not your husband :
in that you spoke truly .
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The woman said to him ,
Sir ,
I perceive that you are a prophet .
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Our fathers worshipped on this mountain ;
but you say that Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship .
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Jesus said to her ,
Woman ,
believe me ,
the hour comes when you shall worship the Father neither on this mountain ,
nor in Jerusalem .
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You do not know what you worship :
we know what we worship :
for salvation is from the Jews .
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But the hour comes ,
and now is ,
when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth :
for the Father seeks such to worship him .
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God is Spirit :
and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth .
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The woman said to him ,
I know that Messiah comes ,
who is called Christ :
when he comes ,
he will tell us all things .
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Jesus said to her ,
I who speak to you am he .
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And at this moment his disciples came ,
and marvelled that he was speaking with a woman :
yet no one said ,
What do you seek ?
or ,
Why are you talking with her ?
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Then the woman left her waterpot ,
and went into the city ,
and said to the people ,
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Come ,
see a man who told me all that I ever did :
is this not the Christ ?
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Then they went out of the city ,
and came to him .
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In the meanwhile his disciples urged him ,
saying ,
Rabbi ,
eat .
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But he said to them ,
I have food to eat of which you know nothing .
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Therefore the disciples said to one another ,
Has any man brought him food ?
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Jesus said to them ,
My food is to do the will of him who sent me ,
and to finish his work .
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Do you not say ,
There are yet four months ,
and then comes harvest ?
behold ,
I say to you ,
Lift up your eyes ,
and look on the fields ;
for they are already white for harvest .
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And he who reaps receives wages ,
and gathers fruit for life eternal :
that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together .
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And here the saying holds true ,
One sows ,
and another reaps .
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I sent you to reap that upon which you bestowed no labour :
other men laboured ,
and you have entered into their labours .