John Chapter 4 (KJV) – Read & Study

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¹When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,

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²(Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)

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³He left Judæa, and departed again into Galilee.

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⁴And he must needs go through Samaria.

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⁵Then cometh 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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⁶Now 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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⁷There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her,Give me to drink.

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⁸(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)

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⁹Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

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¹⁰Jesus answered and said 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.

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¹¹The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

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¹²Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

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¹³Jesus answered and said unto her,Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:

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¹⁴But whosoever drinketh 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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¹⁵The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.

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¹⁶Jesus saith unto her,Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

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¹⁷The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her,Thou hast well said, I have no husband:

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¹⁸For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.

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¹⁹The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

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²⁰Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

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²¹Jesus saith unto her,Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.

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²²Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

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²³But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

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²⁴God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

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²⁵The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.

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²⁶Jesus saith unto her,I that speak unto thee am he.

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²⁷And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?

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²⁸The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,

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²⁹Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?

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³⁰Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.

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³¹In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.

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³²But he said unto them,I have meat to eat that ye know not of.

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³³Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?

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³⁴Jesus saith unto them,My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.

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³⁵Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for they are white already to harvest.

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³⁶And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.

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³⁷And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.

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³⁸I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.

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³⁹And 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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⁴⁰So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.

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⁴¹And many more believed because of his own word;

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⁴²And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.

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⁴³Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.

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⁴⁴For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.

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⁴⁵Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilæans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.

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⁴⁶So 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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⁴⁷When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judæa 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.

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