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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1When Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard he was making and baptizing more disciples than John |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2(though Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were), |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3he left Judea and went again to Galilee. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4He had to travel through Samaria; |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5so he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property that Jacob had given his son Joseph. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, worn out from his journey, sat down at the well. It was about noon. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7A woman of Samaria came to draw water. "Give me a drink," Jesus said to her, |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8because his disciples had gone into town to buy food. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9"How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" she asked him. For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Jesus answered, "If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would ask him, and he would give you living water." |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11"Sir," said the woman, "you don't even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do you get this 'living water'? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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 livestock." |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Jesus said, "Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again. In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up in him for eternal life." |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15"Sir," the woman said to him, "give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and come here to draw water." |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16"Go call your husband," he told her, "and come back here." |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17"I don't have a husband," she answered. "You have correctly said, 'I don't have a husband,'" Jesus said. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18"For you've had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true." |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19"Sir," the woman replied, "I see that you are a prophet. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem." |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Jesus told her, "Believe me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and in truth. Yes, the Father wants such people to worship him. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in Spirit and in truth." |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25The woman said to him, "I know that the Messiah is coming" (who is called Christ). "When he comes, he will explain everything to us." |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Jesus told her, "I, the one speaking to you, am he." |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Just then 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?" |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Then the woman left her water jar, went into town, and told the people, |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29"Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?" |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30They left the town and made their way to him. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31In the meantime the disciples kept urging him, "Rabbi, eat something." |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32But he said, "I have food to eat that you don't know about." |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33The disciples said to one another, "Could someone have brought him something to eat?" |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34"My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work," Jesus told them. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35"Don't you say, 'There are still four more months, and then comes the harvest'? Listen to what I'm telling you: Open your eyes and look at the fields, because they are ready for harvest. |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36The reaper is already receiving pay and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that the sower and reaper can rejoice together. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37For in this case the saying is true: 'One sows and another reaps.' |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38I sent you to reap what you didn't labor for; others have labored, and you have benefited from their labor." |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of what the woman said when she testified, "He told me everything I ever did." |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41Many more believed because of what he said. |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42And they told the woman, "We no longer believe because of what you said, since we have heard for ourselves and know that this really is the Savior of the world." |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43After two days he left there for Galilee. |
| 44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44(Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.) |
| 45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45When they entered Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen everything he did in Jerusalem during the festival. For they also had gone to the festival. |
| 46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46He went again to Cana of Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. There was a certain royal official whose son was ill at Capernaum. |
| 47[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 47When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea into Galilee, he went to him and pleaded with him to come down and heal his son, since he was about to die. |
| 48[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 48Jesus told him, "Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe." |
| 49[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 49"Sir," the official said to him, "come down before my boy dies." |
| 50[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 50"Go," Jesus told him, "your son will live." The man believed what Jesus said to him and departed. |
| 51[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 51While he was still going down, his servants met him saying that his boy was alive. |
| 52[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 52He asked them at what time he got better. "Yesterday at one in the afternoon the fever left him," they answered. |
| 53[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 53The father realized this was the very hour at which Jesus had told him, "Your son will live." So he himself believed, along with his whole household. |
| 54[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 54Now this was also the second sign Jesus performed after he came from Judea to Galilee. |
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