A Ripe Harvest

Published: Dec. 12, 2017, 11:26 p.m.

b'John 4New International Version (NIV)\\nJesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman\\n4 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John\\u2014 2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3 So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.\\n4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.6 Jacob\\u2019s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.\\n7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her,\\xa0\\u201cWill you give me a drink?\\u201d 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)\\n9 The Samaritan woman said to him, \\u201cYou are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?\\u201d (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.[a (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+4#fen-NIV-26166a)])\\n10 Jesus answered her,\\xa0\\u201cIf 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.\\u201d\\n11 \\u201cSir,\\u201d the woman said, \\u201cyou have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself,'