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John 4: 1-26\n\n1 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.\n\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.\n\n7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, \u201cWill you give me a drink?\u201d 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)\n\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])\n\n10 Jesus answered her, \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\n\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, as did also his sons and his livestock?\u201d\n\n13 Jesus answered, \u201cEveryone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.\u201d\n\n15 The woman said to him, \u201cSir, give me this water so that I won\u2019t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.\u201d\n\n16 He told her, \u201cGo, call your husband and come back.\u201d\n\n17 \u201cI have no husband,\u201d she replied.\n\nJesus said to her, \u201cYou are right when you say you have no husband. 18 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.\u201d\n\n19 \u201cSir,\u201d the woman said, \u201cI can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.\u201d\n\n21 \u201cWoman,\u201d Jesus replied, \u201cbelieve me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.\u201d\n\n25 The woman said, \u201cI know that Messiah\u201d (called Christ) \u201cis coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.\u201d\n\n26 Then Jesus declared, \u201cI, the one speaking to you\u2014I am he.\u201d