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undefined Jesus Talks With a Samaritan WomanThe Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John,
undefined although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples.
undefined When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
undefined Now he had to go through Samaria.
undefined So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
undefined Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
undefined When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”
undefined (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
undefined The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
undefined Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
undefined “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?
undefined Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?”
undefined Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,
undefined but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
undefined The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
undefined He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
undefined “I have no husband,” she replied.Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband.
undefined The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”
undefined “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet.
undefined Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
undefined Jesus declared, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
undefined You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
undefined Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
undefined God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.”
undefined The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
undefined Then Jesus declared, “I who speak to you am he.”
undefined The Disciples Rejoin JesusJust then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”
undefined Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people,
undefined “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”
undefined They came out of the town and made their way toward him.
undefined Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat something.”
undefined But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”
undefined Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?”
undefined “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work.
undefined Do you not say, ‘Four months more and then the harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.
undefined Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.
undefined Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true.
undefined I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.”
undefined Many Samaritans BelieveMany of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.”
undefined So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days.
undefined And because of his words many more became believers.
undefined They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”
undefined Jesus Heals the Official’s SonAfter the two days he left for Galilee.
undefined (Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)
undefined When he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him. They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, for they also had been there.
undefined Once more he visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum.
undefined When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him and begged him to come and heal his son, who was close to death.
undefined “Unless you people see miraculous signs and wonders,” Jesus told him, “you will never believe.”
undefined The royal official said, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”
undefined Jesus replied, “You may go. Your son will live.”The man took Jesus at his word and departed.
undefined While he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was living.
undefined When he inquired as to the time when his son got better, they said to him, “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour.”
undefined Then the father realized that this was the exact time at which Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live.” So he and all his household believed.
undefined This was the second miraculous sign that Jesus performed, having come from Judea to Galilee.

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