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When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

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(although Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples),

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he left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.

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And he must needs pass through Samaria.

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So he cometh to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph:

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and Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

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There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

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For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food.

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The Samaritan woman therefore saith unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a Samaritan woman? (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

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Jesus answered and said unto 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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The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then hast thou that living water?

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Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle?

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Jesus answered and said unto her, Every one that 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 become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life.

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The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come all the way 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 unto him, I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her, Thou saidst well, I have no husband:

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for thou hast had five husbands and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: this hast thou said truly.

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The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

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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 neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father.

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Ye worship that which ye know not: we worship that which we know for salvation is from the Jews.

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But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek to be his worshippers.

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God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

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The woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah cometh (he that is called Christ): when he is come, he will declare unto us all things.

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Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am [he].