John
4:1-26
The
Pharisees heard
That Jesus
was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John,
2 Although
in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but His disciples.
3 When the
Lord learned of this,
He left
Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
4 Now He
had to go through Samaria.
5 So He
came to a town in Samaria called Sychar,
Near the
plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
6 Jacob’s
well was there, and Jesus, tired as He was from the journey,
Sat down
by the well.
7 When a
Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her,
Will you
give me a drink?
8 (His
disciples had gone into the town to by food.)
9 The
Samaritan woman said to Him,
You are a
Jew and I am a Samaritan woman.
How can
you ask me for a drink?
(For Jews
do not associate with Samaritans.)
10 Jesus
answered her,
'IF YOU
KNEW THE GIFT OF GOD
AND WHO
IT IS THAT ASKS YOU FOR A DRINK
YOU
WOULD HAVE ASKED HIM
AND HE
WOULD HAVE GIVEN YOU LIVING WATER.'
11 Sir,
the woman said,
You have
nothing to draw with and the well is deep.
Where can
you get this Living Water?
12 Are you
greater than our father Jacob,
Who gave
us the well and drank from it himself,
As did
also his sons and his flocks and herds?
13 Jesus
answered,
'Everyone
who drinks this water will be thirsty again,
14 BUT
WHOEVER DRINKS THE WATER I GIVE HIM
WILL
NEVER THIRST.
INDEED,
THE WATER I GIVE HIM
WILL
BECOME IN HIM A SPRING OF WATER
WELLING
UP TO ETERNAL LIFE.'
15 The
woman said to Him,
'Sir, give
me this water so that I won’t get thirsty
And have
to keep coming here to draw water.
16 He told
her.
Go, call
your husband and come back.
17 I have
no husband, she replied
Jesus said
to her,
You are
right when you say you have no husband.
18 The
fact is, you have had five husbands,
And the
man you now have is not your husband.
What you
have just said is quite true.
19 Sir,
the woman said,
I can see
that you are a Prophet.
20 Our
fathers worshiped on this mountain,
But you
Jews claim
That the
place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.
21 Jesus
declared, 'Believe me, woman,
A time is
coming when you will worship the Father
Neither on
this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
22 You
Samaritans worship what you do not know,
For
salvation is from the Jews.
23 YET
A TIME IS COMING AND HAS NOW COME
WHEN
THE TRUE WORSHIPERS WILL WORSHIP THE FATHER
IN
SPIRIT AND TRUTH
FOR
THEY ARE THE KIND OF WORSHIPERS THE FATHER SEEKS
24 GOD
IS SPIRIT,
AND HIS
WORSHIPERS MUST WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH.'
25 The
woman said,
“I know
that Messiah (called Christ) is coming.
When He
comes, He will explain everything to us.”
26 Then
Jesus declared,
'I WHO
SPEAK TO YOU AM HE.'
(John
4:1-26)
Christ
Jesus tells the Samaritan woman
What he has
not revealed to anyone before;
That one
needs Living Water;
The Spirit of
God living in and through a person,
Which wells
up to Eternal Life.
Then, they
will never Thirst again.
He also tells
the woman that the time has now come
When True
Worshipers will worship in Spirit and in Truth;
In and
through the in dwelling Spirit of God.
Further,
Jesus declares that He is the Christ of God.
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