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John 4:9-26

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9“How is it,” replied the Samaritan woman, “that you who are a Jew ask for water from a Samaritan woman like me?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans).
10“If you knew of the gift of God,” replied Jesus, “and who it is that is saying to you ‘Give me some water,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
11“You have no bucket, Sir, and the well is deep,” she said; “where did you get that ‘living water?’
12Surely you are not greater than our ancestor Jacob who gave us the well, and used to drink from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle!”
13“All who drink of this water,” replied Jesus, “will be thirsty again;
14but whoever once drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst any more; but the water that I will give him will become a spring welling up within him — a source of eternal life.”
15“Give me this water, Sir,” said the woman, “so that I may not be thirsty, nor have to come all the way here to draw water.”
16“Go and call your husband,” said Jesus, “and then come back.”
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.”

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