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1 Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was making and baptizing more disciples than John. 2 (Actually, Jesus was not baptizing people. His disciples were.) 3 So he left the Judean countryside and went back to Galilee. 4 Jesus had to go through Samaria. 5 He arrived at a city in Samaria called Sychar. Sychar was near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob's Well was there. Jesus sat down by the well because he was tired from traveling. The time was about six o'clock in the evening. 7 A Samaritan woman went to get some water. Jesus said to her, |Give me a drink of water.| 8 (His disciples had gone into the city to buy some food.) 9 The Samaritan woman asked him, |How can a Jewish man like you ask a Samaritan woman like me for a drink of water?| (Jews, of course, don't associate with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus replied to her, |If you only knew what God's gift is and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked him for a drink. He would have given you living water.| John 4:1-10, God's Word Translation. Copyright © 1995 by God's Word to the Nations.
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