The Gospel of
John Chapter 4
(Today's
English King James)
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When therefore the LORD knew how the Pharisees had
heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than
John,
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(Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his
disciples,)
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He left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.
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And he must needs go through Samaria.
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Then comes he to a city of Samaria, which is called
Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave
to his son Joseph.
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Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being
wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it
was about the sixth hour.
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There comes a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus
said to her, Give me to drink.
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(For his disciples were gone away to the city to buy
meat.)
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Then said the woman of Samaria to him, How is it that
you, being a Jew, ask drink of me, which am a woman of
Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the
Samaritans.
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Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift
of God, and who it is that said to you, Give me to
drink; you would have asked of him, and he would have
given you living water.
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The woman said to him, Sir, you have nothing to draw
with, and the well is deep: from where then have you
that living water?
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Are you greater than our father Jacob, which gave us
the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children,
and his cattle?
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Jesus answered and said to her, Whoever drinks of this
water shall thirst again:
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But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him
shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give
him shall be in him a well of water springing up into
everlasting life.
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The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, that I
thirst not, neither come here to draw.
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Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband, and come
here.
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The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus
said to her, You have well said, I have no husband:
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For you have had five husbands; and he whom you now
have is not your husband: in that said you truly.
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The woman said to him, Sir, I perceive that you are a
prophet.
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Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and you say,
that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to
worship.
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Jesus said to her, Woman, believe me, the hour comes,
when you shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at
Jerusalem, worship the Father.
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You worship you know not what: we know what we
worship: for salvation is of the Jews.
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But the hour comes, and now is, when the true
worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in
truth: for the Father seeks such to worship him.
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God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must
worship him in spirit and in truth.
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The woman said to him, I know that Messiah comes,
which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell
us all things.
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Jesus said to her, I that speak to you am he.
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And on this came his disciples, and marveled that he
talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seek you?
or, Why talk you with her?
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The woman then left her water pot, and went her way
into the city, and said to the men,
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Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I
did: is not this the Christ?
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Then they went out of the city, and came to him.
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In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying,
Master, eat.
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But he said to them, I have meat to eat that you know
not of.
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Therefore said the disciples one to another, Has any
man brought him anything to eat?
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Jesus said to them, My meat is to do the will of him
that sent me, and to finish his work.
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Say not you, There are yet four months, and then comes
harvest? behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes, and
look on the fields; for they are white already to
harvest.
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And he that reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to
life eternal: that both he that sows and he that reaps
may rejoice together.
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And herein is that saying true, One sows, and another
reaps.
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I sent you to reap that where on you bestowed no
labor: other men labored, and you are entered into
their labors.
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And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on
him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He
told me all that ever I did.
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So when the Samaritans were come to him, they sought
him that he would remain with them: and he stayed
there two days.
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And many more believed because of his own word;
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And said to the woman, Now we believe, not because of
your saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know
that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the
world.
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Now after two days he departed there, and went into
Galilee
.
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For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet has no
honor in his own country.
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Then when he had come into Galilee, the Galilaeans
received him, having seen all the things that he did
at
Jerusalem
at the feast: for they also went to the feast.
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So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he
made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman,
whose son was sick at
Capernaum
.
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When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into
Galilee
, he went to him, and sought him that he would come
down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of
death.
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Then said Jesus to him, Except you see signs and
wonders, you will not believe.
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The nobleman said to him, Sir, come down before my
child die.
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Jesus said to him, Go your way; your son lives. And
the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken to
him, and he went his way.
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And as he was now going down, his servants met him,
and told him, saying, Your son lives.
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Then inquired he of them the hour when he began to
amend. And they said to him, Yesterday at the seventh
hour the fever left him.
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So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in
the which Jesus said to him, Your son lives: and
himself believed, and his whole house.
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This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when
he had come out of Judea into
Galilee.