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Chapter 4
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When therefore the LORD knew how the Pharisees had
heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than
John, |
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(Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,) |
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He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee. |
4
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And he must needs go through Samaria. |
5
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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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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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There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus
saith unto her, Give me to drink. |
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(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to
buy meat.) |
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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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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. |
11
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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? |
12
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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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Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh
of this water shall thirst again: |
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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. |
15
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The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water,
that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. |
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Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come
hither. |
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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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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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The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou
art a prophet. |
20
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Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say,
that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. |
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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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Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship:
for salvation is of the Jews. |
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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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God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship
him in spirit and in truth. |
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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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Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he. |
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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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The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way
into the city, and saith to the men, |
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Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever
I did: is not this the Christ? |
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Then they went out of the city, and came unto him. |
31
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In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying,
Master, eat. |
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But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know
not of. |
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Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any
man brought him ought to eat? |
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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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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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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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And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another
reapeth. |
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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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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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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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And many more believed because of his own word; |
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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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Now after two days he departed thence, and went into
Galilee. |
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For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no
honour in his own country. |
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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. |
46
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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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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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Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders,
ye will not believe. |
49
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The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my
child die. |
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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. |
51
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And as he was now going down, his servants met him,
and told him, saying, Thy son liveth. |
52
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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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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. |
54
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This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when
he was come out of Judaea into Galilee. |
