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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now when Jesus realized that the Pharisees had heard he was making and baptizing more disciples than John— |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2although it was not Jesus who did the baptizing but his disciples— |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3he left Judea and went back to Galilee. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Now it was necessary for him to go through Samaria. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Jacob's Well was also there, and Jesus, tired out by the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus told her, "Please give me a drink," |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8since his disciples had gone off into town to buy food. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9The Samaritan woman asked him, "How can you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" Because Jews do not have anything to do with Samaritans. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, 'Please give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask him, and he would have given you living water." |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11The woman told him, "Sir, you don't have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this living water? |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12You're not greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it, along with his sons and his flocks, are you?" |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks this water will become thirsty again. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14But whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never become thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become a well of water for him, springing up to eternal life." |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15The woman told him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I won't get thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water." |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16He told her, "Go and call your husband, and come back here." |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The woman answered him, "I don't have a husband." Jesus told her, "You are quite right in saying, 'I don't have a husband,' |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18because you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true." |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19The woman told him, "Sir, I see that you are a prophet! |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain. But you Jews say that the place where people should worship is in Jerusalem." |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Jesus told her, "Believe me, dear lady, the hour is coming when you Samaritans will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22You don't know what you're worshiping. We Jews know what we're worshiping, because salvation comes from the Jews. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23Yet the time is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Indeed, the Father is looking for people like that to worship him. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25The woman told him, "I know that the Anointed One is coming, who is being called 'the Messiah'. When that person comes, he will explain everything." |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26"I am he," Jesus replied, "the one who is speaking to you." |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27At this point his disciples arrived, and they were astonished that he was talking to a woman. Yet no one said, "What do you want from her?" or, "Why are you talking to her?" |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Then the woman left her water jar and went back to town. She told people, |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29"Come, see a man who told me everything I've ever done! Could he possibly be the Messiah?" |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30The people left the town and started on their way to him. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Meanwhile, the disciples were urging him, "Rabbi, have something to eat." |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32But he told them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about." |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33So the disciples began to say to one another, "No one has brought him anything to eat, have they?" |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34Jesus told them, "My food is doing the will of the one who sent me and completing his work. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35You say, don't you, 'In four more months the harvest will begin?' Look, I tell you, open your eyes and observe that the fields are ready for harvesting now! |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36The one who harvests is already receiving his wages and gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who harvests may rejoice together. |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37In this respect the saying is true: 'One person sows, and another person harvests.' |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38I have sent you to harvest what you have not worked for. Others have worked, and you have adopted their work as your own." |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39Now many of the Samaritans of that town believed in Jesus because the woman had testified, "He told me everything I've ever done." |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there for two days. |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41And many more believed because of what he said. |
| 42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42They kept telling the woman, "It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, because now we have heard him ourselves, and we know that he really is the Savior of the world." |
| 43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43Two days later, Jesus left for Galilee from there, |
| 44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44since Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country. |
| 45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen everything that he had done in Jerusalem during the festival and because they, too, had gone to the festival. |
| 46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46So Jesus returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. Meanwhile, in Capernaum there was a government official whose son was ill. |
| 47[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 47When this man heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and asked him repeatedly to come down and heal his son, because 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 never believe." |
| 49[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 49The official told him, "Sir, please come down before my little boy dies." |
| 50[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 50Jesus told him, "Go home. Your son will live." The man believed what Jesus told him and started back home. |
| 51[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 51While he was on his way, his servants met him and told him that his child was alive. |
| 52[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 52So he asked them at what hour he had begun to recover, and they told him, "The fever left him yesterday at one o'clock in the afternoon." |
| 53[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 53Then the father realized that this was the very hour when Jesus had told him, "Your son will live." So he himself believed, along with his whole family. |
| 54[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 54Now this was the second sign that Jesus did after coming from Judea to Galilee. |
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