Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard, \u2018Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John\u2019\u2014 although it was not Jesus himself but his disciples who baptized\u2014 he left Judea and started back to Galilee. But he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob\u2019s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.<\/p>\n
A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, \u2018Give me a drink\u2019. (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, \u2018How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?\u2019 (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, \u2018If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, \u201cGive me a drink\u201d, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.\u2019 The woman said to him, \u2018Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?\u2019 Jesus said to her, \u2018Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.\u2019 The woman said to him, \u2018Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.\u2019<\/p>\n
Jesus said to her, \u2018Go, call your husband, and come back.\u2019 The woman answered him, \u2018I have no husband.\u2019 Jesus said to her, \u2018You are right in saying, \u201cI have no husband\u201d; for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!\u2019 The woman said to him, \u2018Sir, I see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, but you say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.\u2019 Jesus said to her, \u2018Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such as these to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.\u2019 The woman said to him, \u2018I know that Messiah is coming\u2019 (who is called Christ). \u2018When he comes, he will proclaim all things to us.\u2019 Jesus said to her, \u2018I am he, the one who is speaking to you.\u2019<\/p>\n
Just then his disciples came. They were astonished that he was speaking with a woman, but no one said, \u2018What do you want?\u2019 or, \u2018Why are you speaking with her?\u2019 Then the woman left her water-jar and went back to the city. She said to the people, \u2018Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah, can he?\u2019 They left the city and were on their way to him.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, \u2018Rabbi, eat something.\u2019 But he said to them, \u2018I have food to eat that you do not know about.\u2019 So the disciples said to one another, \u2018Surely no one has brought him something to eat?\u2019 Jesus said to them, \u2018My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work. Do you not say, \u201cFour months more, then comes the harvest\u201d? But I tell you, look around you, and see how the fields are ripe for harvesting. The reaper is already receiving wages and is gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. For here the saying holds true, \u201cOne sows and another reaps.\u201d I sent you to reap that for which you did not labour. Others have laboured, and you have entered into their labour.\u2019<\/p>\n
Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman\u2019s testimony, \u2018He told me everything I have ever done.\u2019 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them; and he stayed there for two days. And many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, \u2018It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Saviour of the world.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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