| 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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2 | (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,) |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 7 |
There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to
drink. |
| 8 | (For his
disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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? |
| 12 | Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us
the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? |
| 13 | Jesus answered and said unto
her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: |
| 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. |
| 15 | The woman saith unto him, Sir,
give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. |
| 16 | Jesus saith unto her, Go, call
thy husband, and come hither. |
| 17
| 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. |
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19 | The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that
thou art a prophet. |
| 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. |
| 22 | Ye worship ye
know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. |
| 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. |
| 26 | Jesus saith unto her, I that speak
unto thee am he. |
| 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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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. |
| 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. |
| 33 | Therefore said
the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat? |
| 34 | Jesus saith unto them, My meat
is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. |
| 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. |
| 37 |
And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth. |
| 38 | 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. |
| 41 | And many more believed
because of his own word; |
| 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. |
| 43 | Now
after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee. |
| 44 | For Jesus himself testified, that a
prophet hath no honour in his own country. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 48 | Then said
Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
