1: When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that
Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, |
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2: (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)
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He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee. |
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4: And he must needs go through Samaria. |
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5: Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to
the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. |
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6: Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his
journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour. |
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7: There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her,
Give me to drink. |
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8: (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
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9: Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a
Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no
dealings with the Samaritans. |
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10: Jesus answered and said unto her,
If thou knewest the gift of God,
and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of
him, and he would have given thee living water. |
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11: The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and
the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water? |
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12: Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and
drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? |
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13: Jesus answered and said unto her,
Whosoever drinketh of this water
shall thirst again: |
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14: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never
thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water
springing up into everlasting life. |
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15: The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not,
neither come hither to draw. |
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16: Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
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17: The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her,
Thou hast well said, I have no husband: |
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18: For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy
husband: in that saidst thou truly. |
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19: The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
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20: Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in
Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. |
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21: Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye
shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. |
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22: Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation
is of the Jews. |
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23: But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall
worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to
worship him. |
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24: God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit
and in truth. |
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25: The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called
Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. |
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26: Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
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27: And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with
the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?
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28: The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and
saith to the men, |
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29: Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not
this the Christ? |
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30: Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
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31: In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.
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32: But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
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33: Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him
ought to eat? |
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34: Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me,
and to finish his work. |
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35: Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest?
behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are
white already to harvest. |
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36: And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life
eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. |
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37: And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
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38: I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men
laboured, and ye are entered into their labours. |
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39: And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the
saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did. |
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40: So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he
would tarry with them: and he abode there two days. |
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41: And many more believed because of his own word; |
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42: And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying:
for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the
Saviour of the world. |
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43: Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.
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44: For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own
country. |
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45: Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him,
having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also
went unto the feast. |
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46: So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water
wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. |
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47: When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went
unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was
at the point of death. |
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48: Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will
not believe. |
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49: The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.
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50: Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man
believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way. |
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51: And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him,
saying, Thy son liveth. |
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52: Then inquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they
said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him. |
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53: So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus
said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house. |
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54: This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out
of Judaea into Galilee. |