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   [25] Then there arose a question between some of John's disciples and the   
   Jews about purifying.   
   [26] And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with   
   thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same   
   baptizeth, and all men come to him.   
   [27] John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it be given   
   him from heaven.   
   [28] Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the Christ, but   
   that I am sent before him.   
   [29] He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of the   
   bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of   
   the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.   
   [30] He must increase, but I must decrease.   
      
   He Who Comes From Heaven   
      
   31 (Jn 8:23; Mt 28:18; Jn 6:33) He who comes from above is above all.   
   He who is of the earth is earthly and speaks of the earth.   
   He who comes from heaven is above all.   
   32 (Jn 3:11; 1:11; 8:26) He bears witness of what He has seen and heard,   
   yet no one receives His testimony.   
   33 He who has received His testimony has certified that God is true.   
   34 (Jn 3:17; Lk 4:18) For He whom God has sent speaks the words of God,   
   for God gives the Spirit without measure to Him.   
   35 (Mt 28:18; Jn 5:20) The Father loves the Son, and has placed all things   
   into His hand.   
   36 (Jn 5:24; 3:15-16) He who believes in the Son has eternal life.   
   He who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God   
   remains on him.   
      
   [31] He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is   
   earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.   
   [32] And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no man   
   receiveth his testimony.   
   [33] He that hath received his testimony hath set to his seal that God is   
   true.   
   [34] For he whom God hath sent speaketh the words of God: for God giveth not   
   the Spirit by measure unto him.   
   [35] The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.   
   [36] He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that   
   believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on   
   him.   
      
   John 4   
      
   Jesus and the Samaritan Woman   
      
   1 (Jn 3:22; 3:26) Now when the Lord learned that the Pharisees   
   had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John   
   2 (though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples),   
   3 He left Judea and departed again to Galilee.   
   4 Now it was necessary that He go through Samaria.   
   5 (Ge 33:19; 48:22) So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar,   
   near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.   
   6 (Mt 4:2; 8:24) Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being exhausted   
   from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.   
   7 A woman of Samaria came there to draw water.   
   Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink."   
   8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.   
   9 (Jn 8:48; Mt 10:5) Then the woman of Samaria said to Him,   
   "How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?"   
   For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.   
   10 (Jer 2:13; Jn 4:14) Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God,   
   and who it is who is saying to you, 'Give Me a drink,'   
   you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water."   
   11 The woman said to Him, "Sir, You have nothing to draw with,   
   and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water?   
   12 (Jn 8:53) Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well   
   and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock?"   
   13 Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,   
   14 (Jn 6:35; Isa 49:10) but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give   
   him will never thirst. Indeed, the water that I shall give him will become   
   in him a well of water springing up into eternal life."   
   15 (Jn 6:34) The woman said to Him, "Sir, give me this water, so that   
   I will not thirst, nor come here to draw."   
   16 Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."   
   17 The woman answered, "I have no husband."   
   Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband,'   
   18 for you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have   
   is not your husband. So you have spoken truthfully."   
   19 (Lk 7:16; 7:39) The woman said to Him, "Sir, I perceive   
   that You are a prophet.   
   20 (Ge 12:6-7; Dt 11:29) Our fathers worshipped on this mountain,   
   but you all say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship."   
   21 (Mal 1:11; 1Ti 2:8) Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe Me,   
   the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor   
   in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.   
   22 (Isa 2:3; Ro 9:4-5) You worship what you do not know; we know   
   what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.   
   23 (Php 3:3; Jn 5:25) Yet 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 to worship Him.   
   24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship Him   
   in spirit and truth."   
   25 (Jn 4:29) The woman said to Him, “"I know that Messiah is coming"   
   (who is called Christ). "When He comes, He will tell us all things."   
   26 Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am He."   
   27 (Lk 7:39; Jn 4:8-9) Then His disciples came. They marveled that He talked   
   with a woman. Yet no one said, "What do You seek?"   
   or, "Why are You talking with her?"   
   28 The woman then left her water pot, went her way into the city,   
   and said to the men,   
   29 (Jn 4:17-18; 4:25) "Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did.   
   Could this be the Christ?"   
   30 They went out of the city and came to Him.   
   31 Meanwhile His disciples urged Him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."   
   32 (Job 23:12)But He said to them,   
   "I have food to eat of which you do not know."   
   33 Therefore the disciples said one to another,   
   "Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?"   
   34 (Jn 6:38; 17:4) Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him   
   who sent Me, and to finish His work.   
   35 (Mt 9:37-38; Jn 4:30) Do you not say, 'There are yet four months,   
   and then comes the harvest'? Listen! I say to you, lift up your eyes   
   and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest.   
   36 (Ro 1:13) He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit that leads   
   to eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.   
   37 (Mic 6:15; Job 31:8) For in this is the saying true, 'One sows,   
   and another reaps.'   
   38 (Ac 8:14-17) I sent you to reap a crop for which you did not labor.   
   And you have benefited from their labor."   
   39 (Jn 4:29; 4:5) Many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him   
   because of the word of the woman who testified,   
   "He told me all that I ever did."   
   40 So when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to remain with them.   
   And He stayed there two days.   
   41 And many more believed because of His word.   
   42 (1Jn 4:14; Jn 1:29; 2Co 5:19) They said to the woman, "Now we believe,   
   not because of what you said, for we have heard for ourselves   
   and know that this Man is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world."   
      
   [1] When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made   
   and baptized more disciples than John,   
   [2] (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)   
   [3] He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.   
   [4] And he must needs go through Samaria.   
   [5] Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the   
   parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.   
   [6] Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his   
      
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