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    John 4
    •   Now as soon as the Master was aware that the Pharisees had heard it said, "Jesus is gaining and baptizing more disciples than John"--
    •   though Jesus Himself did not baptize them, but His disciples did--
    •   He left Judaea and returned to Galilee.
    •   His road lay through Samaria,
    •   and so He came to Sychar, a town in Samaria near the piece of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
    •   Jacob's Well was there: and accordingly Jesus, tired out with His journey, sat down by the well to rest. It was about six o'clock in the evening.
    •   Presently there came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus asked her to give Him some water;
    •   for His disciples were gone to the town to buy provisions.
    •   "How is it," replied the woman, "that a Jew like you asks me, who am a woman and a Samaritan, for water?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
    • 10   "If you had known God's free gift," replied Jesus, "and who it is that said to you, `Give me some water,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water."
    • 11   "Sir," she said, "you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; so where can you get the living water from?
    • 12   Are you greater than our forefather Jacob, who gave us the well, and himself drank from it, as did also his sons and his cattle?"
    • 13   "Every one," replied Jesus, "who drinks any of this water will be thirsty again;
    • 14   but whoever drinks any of the water that I shall give him will never, never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become a fountain within him of water springing up for the Life of the Ages."
    • 15   "Sir," said the woman, "give me that water, that I may never be thirsty, nor continually come all the way here to draw from the well."
    • 16   "Go and call your husband," said Jesus; "and come back."
    • 17   "I have no husband," she replied. "You rightly say that you have no husband," said Jesus;
    • 18   "for you have had five husbands, and the man you have at present is not your husband. You have spoken the truth in saying that."
    • 19   "Sir," replied the woman, "I see that you are a Prophet.
    • 20   Our forefathers worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem."
    • 21   "Believe me," said Jesus, "the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
    • 22   You worship One of whom you know nothing. We worship One whom we know; for salvation comes from the Jews.
    • 23   But a time is coming--nay, has already come--when the true worshippers will worship the Father with true spiritual worship; for indeed the Father desires such worshippers.
    • 24   God is Spirit; and those who worship Him must bring Him true spiritual worship."
    • 25   "I know," replied the woman, "that Messiah is coming-- `the Christ,' as He is called. When He has come, He will tell us everything."
    • 26   "I am He," said Jesus-- "I who am now talking to you."
    • 27   Just then His disciples came, and were surprised to find Him talking with a woman. Yet not one of them asked Him, "What is your wish?" or "Why are you talking with her?"
    • 28   The woman however, leaving her pitcher, went away to the town, and called the people.
    • 29   "Come," she said, "and see a man who has told me everything I have ever done. Can this be the Christ, do you think?"
    • 30   They left the town and set out to go to Him.
    • 31   Meanwhile the disciples were urging Jesus. "Rabbi," they said, "eat something."
    • 32   "I have food to eat," He replied, "of which you do not know."
    • 33   So the disciples began questioning one another. "Can it be," they said, "that some one has brought Him something to eat?"
    • 34   "My food," said Jesus, "is to be obedient to Him who sent me, and fully to accomplish His work.
    • 35   Do you not say, `It wants four months yet to the harvest'? But look round, I tell you, and observe these plains-- they are already ripe for the sickle.
    • 36   The reaper gets pay and gathers in a crop in preparation for the Life of the Ages, that so the sower and the reapers may rejoice together.
    • 37   For it is in this that you see the real meaning of the saying, `The sower is one person, and the reaper is another.'
    • 38   I sent you to reap a harvest which is not the result of your own labours. Others have laboured, and you are getting benefit from their labours."
    • 39   Of the Samaritan population of that town a good many believed in Him because of the woman's statement when she declared, "He has told me all that I have ever done."
    • 40   When however the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him on all sides to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.
    • 41   Then a far larger number of people believed because of His own words,
    • 42   and they said to the woman, "We no longer believe in Him simply because of your statements; for we have now heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Saviour of the world."
    • 43   After the two days He departed, and went into Galilee;
    • 44   though Jesus Himself declared that a Prophet has no honour in his own country.
    • 45   When however He reached Galilee, the Galilaeans welcomed Him eagerly, having been eye-witnesses of all that He had done in Jerusalem at the Festival; for they also had been to the Festival.
    • 46   So He came once more to Cana in Galilee, where He had made the water into wine. Now there was a certain officer of the King's court whose son was ill at Capernaum.
    • 47   Having heard that Jesus had come from Judaea to Galilee, he came to Him and begged Him to go down and cure his son; for he was at the point of death.
    • 48   "Unless you and others see miracles and marvels," said Jesus, "nothing will induce you to believe."
    • 49   "Sir," pleaded the officer, "come down before my child dies."
    • 50   "You may return home," replied Jesus; "your son has recovered." He believed the words of Jesus, and started back home;
    • 51   and he was already on his way down when his servants met him and told him that his son was alive and well.
    • 52   So he inquired of them at what hour he had shown improvement. "Yesterday, about seven o'clock," they replied, "the fever left him."
    • 53   Then the father recollected that that was the time at which Jesus had said to him, "Your son has recovered," and he and his whole household became believers.
    • 54   This is the second miracle that Jesus performed, after coming from Judaea into Galilee.
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    2006-10-25

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    WEYMOUTH NEW TESTAMENT
    NEW TESTAMENT IN MODERN SPEECH by Richard F. Weymouth, 3rd Edition (1912)--Revised & edited E. Hampden-Cooke

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