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| Gospel |
John
4: |
5-42
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shorter version: 4:5-15, 19-26, 39-42] |
| 5 |
So he
came to a city of Samar'ia, called Sy'char, near the field that Jacob gave
to his son Joseph. |
| 6 |
Jacob's well was
there, and so Jesus, wearied as he was with his journey, sat down beside
the well. It was about the sixth hour. |
| 7 |
There came a woman
of Samar'ia to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." |
| 8 |
For his disciples
had gone away into the city to buy food. |
| 9 |
The Samaritan woman
said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of
Samar'ia?" For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. |
| 10 |
Jesus answered her,
"If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, `Give
me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living
water." |
| 11 |
The woman said to
him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; where do
you get that living water? |
| 12 |
Are you greater
than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself,
and his sons, and his cattle?" |
| 13 |
Jesus said to her,
"Every one who drinks of this water will thirst again, |
| 14 |
but whoever drinks
of the water that I shall give him will never thirst; the water that I
shall give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal
life." |
| 15 |
The
woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor
come here to draw." |
| 16 |
Jesus said to her,
"Go, call your husband, and come here." |
| 17 |
The woman answered
him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying,
`I have no husband'; |
| 18 |
for you have had
five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband; this you said
truly." |
| 19 |
The woman said to
him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. |
| 20 |
Our fathers worshiped
on this mountain; and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men
ought to worship." |
| 21 |
Jesus said to her,
"Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor
in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. |
| 22 |
You worship what
you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. |
| 23 |
But the hour is
coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in
spirit and truth, for such the Father seeks to worship him. |
| 24 |
God is spirit, and
those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." |
| 25 |
The
woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ);
when he comes, he will show us all things." |
| 26 |
Jesus said to her,
"I who speak to you am he." |
| 27 |
Just then his disciples
came. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but none said, "What
do you wish?" or, "Why are you talking with her?" |
| 28 |
So the woman left
her water jar, and went away into the city, and said to the people, |
| 29 |
"Come, see a man
who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?" |
| 30 |
They went out of
the city and were coming to him. |
| 31 |
Meanwhile the disciples
besought him, saying, "Rabbi, eat." |
| 32 |
But he said to them,
"I have food to eat of which you do not know." |
| 33 |
So the disciples
said to one another, "Has any one brought him food?" |
| 34 |
Jesus said to them,
"My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work. |
| 35 |
Do you
not say, `There are yet four months, then comes the harvest'? I tell you,
lift up your eyes, and see how the fields are already white for harvest. |
| 36 |
He who reaps receives
wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may
rejoice together. |
| 37 |
For here the saying
holds true, `One sows and another reaps.' |
| 38 |
I sent you to reap
that for which you did not labor; others have labored, and you have entered
into their labor." |
| 39 |
Many Samaritans
from that city believed in him because of the woman's testimony, "He told
me all that I ever did." |
| 40 |
So when the Samaritans
came to him, they asked him to stay with them; and he stayed there two
days. |
| 41 |
And many more believed
because of his word. |
| 42 |
They said to the
woman, "It is no longer because of your words that we believe, for we have
heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the
world." |
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