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John 4:3-33

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3He left Judea and went away into Galilee.
4Now He needed to go through Samaria;
5so He comes to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6Now Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, being worn out from the journey, sat as He was by the well. It was about 6 p.m.
7A woman of Samaria comes to draw water. Jesus says to her, “Give me a drink.”
8(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
9So the Samaritan woman says to Him, “How can you, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?” (for Jews do not associate with Samaritans).
10Jesus answered and said to her: “If you knew the gift of God, and who is the one saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
11The woman says to Him: “Sir, you don't even have a bucket, and the well is deep; so where do you get this living water?
12You aren't greater than our father Jacob, are you? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”
13Jesus answered and said to her: “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,
14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never ever thirst; rather, the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water, welling up into eternal life.”
15The woman says to Him, “Sir, give me this water! so that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”
16Jesus says to her, “Go, call your husband and come back here.”
17The woman answered and said, “I don't have a husband.” Jesus says to her: “You stated correctly that you do not have a husband,
18because you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is no husband of yours. You spoke the truth there!”
19The woman says to Him: “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.
20Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, while you (pl) say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.”
21Jesus says to her: “Woman, believe me, a time is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
22You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we Jews worship what we do know, because the salvation is from the Jews.
23But the time is coming, in fact now is, when the genuine worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Really, because the Father is looking for such people to worship Him.
24God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
25The woman says to Him: “I know that Messiah is coming (who is called Christ). When He comes He will explain everything to us.”
26Jesus says to her, “I am He, the one who is talking with you!”
27At that point His disciples arrived, and they were amazed that He was talking with a woman; yet no one said, “What do you want?” or “Why are You talking with her?”
28So the woman left her water jar, went her way into the town, and says to the men:
29“Come see a man who told me everything I ever did! Could this be the Messiah?”
30So out they went from the town and started toward Him.
31Now in the meantime the disciples were urging Him saying, “Rabbi, eat.”
32But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”
33So the disciples started saying to one another, “Could someone have brought Him something to eat?”

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