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John 3

## The Gospel According to Saint John

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| # Chapter 4
#### 1 | When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
#### 2 | (although Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples),
#### 3 | he left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.
#### 4 | And he must needs pass through Samaria.
#### 5 | So he cometh to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph:
#### 6 | and Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
#### 7 | There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
#### 8 | For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food.
#### 9 | 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.)
#### 10 | 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.
#### 11 | The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then hast thou that living water?
#### 12 | Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle?
#### 13 | Jesus answered and said unto her, Every one that drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
#### 14 | 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.
#### 15 | The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come all the way hither to draw.
#### 16 | Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
#### 17 | The woman answered and said unto him, I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her, Thou saidst well, I have no husband:
#### 18 | for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: this hast thou said truly.
#### 19 | The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
#### 20 | Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
#### 21 | Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father.
#### 22 | Ye worship that which ye know not: we worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
#### 23 | 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.
#### 24 | God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
#### 25 | 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.
#### 26 | Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am [he].
#### 27 | And upon this came his disciples; and they marvelled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her?
#### 28 | So the woman left her waterpot, and went away into the city, and saith to the people,
#### 29 | Come, see a man, who told me all things that [ever] I did: can this be the Christ?
#### 30 | They went out of the city, and were coming to him.
#### 31 | In the mean while the disciples prayed him, saying, Rabbi, eat.
#### 32 | But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not.
#### 33 | The disciples therefore said one to another, Hath any man brought him [aught] to eat?
#### 34 | Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.
#### 35 | Say not ye, There are yet four months, and [then] cometh the harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are white already unto harvest.
#### 36 | He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal; that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
#### 37 | For herein is the saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
#### 38 | I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored: others have labored, and ye are entered into their labor.
#### 39 | 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 [ever] I did.
#### 40 | So when the Samaritans came unto him, they besought him to abide with them: and he abode there two days.
#### 41 | And many more believed because of his word;
#### 42 | and they said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy speaking: for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.
#### 43 | And after the two days he went forth from thence into Galilee.
#### 44 | For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honor in his own country.
#### 45 | So when he came into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.
#### 46 | 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.
#### 47 | When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea 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.
#### 48 | Jesus therefore said unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will in no wise believe.
#### 49 | The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.
#### 50 | 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.
#### 51 | And as he was now going down, his servants met him, saying, that his son lived.
#### 52 | 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.
#### 53 | 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.
#### 54 | This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judaea into Galilee.

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