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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. |
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And he must needs go through Samaria. |
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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. |
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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? |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told
him, saying, Thy son liveth. |
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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. |
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This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was
come out of Judaea into Galilee. |