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John 4:17-46

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17“I have no husband,” answered the woman. “You are right in saying ‘I have no husband,’” replied Jesus,
18“For you have had five husbands, and the man with whom you are now living is not your husband; in saying that, you have spoken the truth.”
19“I see, Sir, that you are a prophet!” exclaimed the woman.
20“It was on this mountain that our ancestors worshiped; and yet you Jews say that the proper place for worship is in Jerusalem.”
21“Believe me,” replied Jesus, “a time is coming when it will be neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem that you will worship the Father.
22You Samaritans do not know what you worship; we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews.
23But a time is coming, indeed it is already here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father spiritually and truly; for such are the worshipers that the Father desires.
24God is Spirit; and those who worship him must worship spiritually and truly.”
25“I know,” answered the woman, “that the Messiah, who is called the Christ, is coming; when once he has come, he will tell us everything.”
26“I am he,” Jesus said to her, “I who am speaking to you.”
27At this moment his disciples came up, and were surprised to find him talking with a woman; but none of them asked ‘What do you want?’ or ‘Why are you talking with her?’
28So the woman, leaving her pitcher, went back to the town, and said to the people,
29“Come and see someone who has told me everything that I have done. Can he be the Christ?”
30And the people left the town and went to see Jesus.
31Meanwhile the disciples kept saying to him, “Take something to eat, Rabbi.”
32“I have food to eat,” he answered, “of which you know nothing.”
33“Can anyone have brought him anything to eat?” the disciples said to one another.
34“My food,” replied Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me, and to complete his work.
35Don't you say that it still wants four months to harvest? Why, look up, and see how white the fields are for harvest!
36Already the reaper is receiving wages and gathering in sheaves for eternal life, so that sower and reaper rejoice together.
37For here the proverb holds good — ‘One sows, another reaps.’
38I have sent you to reap that on which you have spent no labor; others have labored, and you have reaped the results of their labor.”
39Many from that town came to believe in Jesus — Samaritans though they were — because the woman had said, ‘He has told me everything that I have done.’
40And, when these Samaritans had come to Jesus, they begged him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days.
41But far more came to believe in him because of what he said himself,
42and they said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you say that we believe in him, for we have heard him ourselves and know that he really is the Savior of the world.”
43After these two days Jesus went on to Galilee;
44for he himself declared that ‘a prophet is not honored in his own country.’
45When he entered Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, for they had seen all that he did at Jerusalem during the Festival, at which they also had been present.
46So Jesus came again to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. Now there was one of the king's officers whose son was lying ill at Capernaum.

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