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1 | When therefore the LORD knew how the Pharisees had heard that
Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, |
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2 | (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,) |
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3 | He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee. |
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4 | And he must needs go through Samaria. |
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5 | 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. |
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6 | 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. |
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7 | There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith
unto her, Give me to drink. |
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8 | (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) |
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9 | 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. |
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10 | 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. |
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11 | 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? |
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12 | Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the
well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his
cattle? |
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13 | Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this
water shall thirst again: |
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14 | 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. |
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15 | The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I
thirst not, neither come hither to draw. |
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16 | Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. |
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17 | The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said
unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: |
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18 | For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is
not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. |
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19 | The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a
prophet. |
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20 | Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in
Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. |
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21 | Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when
ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem,
worship the Father. |
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22 | Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for
salvation is of the Jews. |
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23 | 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. |
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24 | God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in
spirit and in truth. |
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25 | The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is
called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. |
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26 | Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he. |
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27 | And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked
with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why
talkest thou with her? |
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28 | The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the
city, and saith to the men, |
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29 | Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is
not this the Christ? |
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30 | Then they went out of the city, and came unto him. |
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31 | In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master,
eat. |
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32 | But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. |
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33 | Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man
brought him ought to eat? |
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34 | Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that
sent me, and to finish his work. |
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35 | Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh
harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look
on the fields; for they are white already to harvest. |
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36 | And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto
life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may
rejoice together. |
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37 | And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another
reapeth. |
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38 | I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other
men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. |
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39 | And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for
the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that
ever I did. |
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40 | So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him
that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days. |
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41 | And many more believed because of his own word; |
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42 | And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy
saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is
indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world. |
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43 | Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee. |
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44 | For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in
his own country. |
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45 | Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received
him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at
the feast: for they also went unto the feast. |
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46 | So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the
water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was
sick at Capernaum. |
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47 | When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee,
he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down,
and heal his son: for he was at the point of death. |
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48 | Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye
will not believe. |
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49 | The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die. |
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50 | Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man
believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went
his way. |
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51 | And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told
him, saying, Thy son liveth. |
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52 | Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And
they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever
left him. |
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53 | So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which
Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and
his whole house. |
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54 | This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was
come out of Judaea into Galilee. |
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