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The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John,

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although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples.

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When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee .

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Now he had to go through Samaria .

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So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph。

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Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

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When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?"

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(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

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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.)

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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."

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"Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?

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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?"

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Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,

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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."

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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."