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Chapter 4 |
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1 | When therefore the LORD knew how the
Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than
John, |
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(Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)
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| 3 | He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee. |
| 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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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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| 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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| 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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Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst
again: |
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| 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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Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come
hither. |
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| The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus
said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: |
| 18 | For thou
hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that
saidst thou truly. |
| 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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| 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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| 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. |
| 24 | God is a Spirit: and they
that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. |
| 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? |
| 28 | The woman then left her
waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, |
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Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the
Christ? |
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| 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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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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And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. |
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I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and
ye are entered into their labours. |
| 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. |
| 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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And many more believed because of his own word; |
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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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| Now after two days he departed thence, and went into
Galilee. |
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| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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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| 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. |
| 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. |
| 52 | Then enquired 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. |
| 54 | This is again the second
miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea into Galilee. |
