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A woman from Samaria came to draw water [c. AD 28, at Sychar’s well at midday]. … 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.” … “The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” … “Go, call your husband, and come here.” … “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” … “I who speak to you am he [the Christ, the Messiah].” … Just then his disciples came back. … … So, the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ [the Messiah]?” They went out of the town and were coming to him. Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” … “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. … Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. …” Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” So, when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. And many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.” John 4:7–42 | |||||||||||
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