Chapter 04

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Chapter four of the Gospel according to John American Standard version.
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by Sam Stinson by his faith dot com. Chapter four.
When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard

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that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John,
although Jesus himself baptized not but his disciples. He left
Judea and departed again into Galilee, and he must needs
pass through Samaria. So he cometh to a city of
Samaria called Psycher, nearer to the parcel of ground that
Jacob gave to his son Joseph, and Jacob's will was there. Jesus, therefore,

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being wearied with his journey, sat thus by the well.
It was about the sixth hour. There cometh a woman
of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith under her, give
me to drink, for his disciples were gone away into
the city to buy food. The Samaritan woman therefore saith
unto him, how is it that thou, being a Jew,

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askest drink of me, who am a Samaritan woman, For
Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. 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 wouldst have asked of him, and he would have
given thee living water. The woman saith unto him, Sir,

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thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep.
Whence then hast thou that living water? Art thou greater
than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and
drank thereof himself and his sons and his cattle. Jesus
answered and said, unto her, everyone that drinketh of this
water shall thirst again. But whosoever drinketh of the water

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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. The
woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water that
I thirst, not neither come all the way hither to draw.
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 saidest, well, I have
no husband, for thou hast had five husbands, And he
whom thou now hast is not thy husband. This hast
thou said, truly, the woman saith unto him, Sir, I

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perceive that thou art a prophet our Father's worshiped in
this mountain. And ye say that in Jerusalem is the
place where man ought to worship. Jesus saith unto her. Woman.
Believe me, the hour cometh when neither end this mountain
nor in Jerusalem shall ye worship the Father. Ye worship
that which ye know. Not we worship that which we know,

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for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour cometh,
and now is when the true worshipers shall worship the
Father in spirit and truth. For such doth the Father
seek to be his worshipers. God is a spirit, and
they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
The woman saith unto him. I know that Messiah cometh,

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he that is called Christ. When he is come, he
will declare unto us all things. Jesus saith unto her,
I that speak unto thee am He And upon this
came his disciples, and they marveled that he was speaking
with a woman. Yet no man said, what seekest thou,
or why speakest thou with her? So the woman left

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her water pot and went away into the city, and
saith to the people, come see a man who told
me all things that ever I did? Can this be
the Christ? They went out of the city and were
coming to him in the Meanwhile, the disciples prayed him, saying, Rabbi, eat,
But he said, unto them, I have meat to eat,

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that ye know not. The disciples therefore said one to another,
have any man brought him ought to eat? Jesus saith
unto them, my meat is to do the will of
him that sent me, and to accomplish his work. Say not, ye,
there are yet four months, and then cometh the harvest. Behold,
I say unto you, lift up your eyes and look

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on the fields, that they are white already unto harvest,
he that reapeth receiveth wages and gathereth fruit. Unto eternal life,
that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
For herein is the saying true, one soweth and another reapeth.
I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored,
others have labored, and ye are entered into their labor.

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And from that city many of the Samaritans believed on
him because of the word of the woman who testified.
He told me all things that I ever did. So
when the Samaritans came unto him, they be sought him
to abide with them, and he abode there two days,
and many more believed because of his word. And they
said to the woman, now we believe not because of

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thy speaking, for we have heard for ourselves and know
that this is indeed the savior of the world. And
after the two days he went forth from thence into Galilee.
For Jesus himself testified that a prophet hath no honor
in his own country. Then when he came into Galilee,
the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that
he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also

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went unto the feast. He came therefore again unto cana
of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there
was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum,
when he heard that Jesus was come out of Judea
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. Jesus therefore said, unto him,

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except yees signs and wonders, ye will in no wise believe.
The noble man saith unto him, Sir, come down ere
my child die. Jesus saith unto him, go thy way,
thy son liveth. The man believed the word that Jesus
spake unto him, and he went his way. And as
he was now going down, his servants met him, saying

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that his son lived. So he inquired of them the
hour when he began to amend. They said, therefore, unto
him yesterday, at the seventh hour, the fever left him.
So the father knew that it was at that hour
in which Jesus said, unto him, thy son liveth, and
himself believed, and his whole house. This is again the

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second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea
into Galilee. End of Chapter four