4:15

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."

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He told her, "Go, call your husband and come back."

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"I have no husband," she replied. Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband.

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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."

4:19

"Sir," the woman said, "I can see that you are a prophet.

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Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem ."  

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Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem .

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You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.

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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.

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God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."

4:25

The woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us."

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Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am he."