John 4

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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. (때는 오정 쯤이었다)

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When a Samaritian 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 associae 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, "Everone who drinks this water will be thirst 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."

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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,

"Your 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."

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

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Ourfathers worshiped on this mountain,

but you Jews calim 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 is 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 wil worship the Fater 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 worhip in spirit and in truth."

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The woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming.

When he comes, he will explain everyting to us."

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

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Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him

talking with a woman. But no one asked, "What do you want?"

or "Why are you talking with her?"

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Then, leaving her water jar,

the woman went back to the town and said to the people,

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"Come, see a man who told me everything

I ever did. Could this be the Christ?"

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They came out of the town and made their way toward him.

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Meanwhile his disciples urged him, "Rabbi, eat something."

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But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you know nothing about."

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Then his disciples said to each other,

"Could someone have brought him fod?"

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"My food," said Jesus, "is to do the will of him

who sent me and to finish his work.

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Do you not say, 'Four months more and then the harvest'?

I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest.

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Even now the reaper draws his wages,

even now he harvests the crop for eternal life,

so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together.

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Thus the saying 'One sows and another reaps' is true.

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I sent you to reap what you have not worked for.

Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor."

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Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him

because of the woman's testimony, "He told me everything I ever did."

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So when the Samaitians came to him,

they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days.

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And because of his words many more became believers.

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They said to the woman, "We no longer believe just

because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves,

and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world."

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After the two days he left for Galilee.

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(Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)

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when he arrived in Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him.

They had seen all that he had done in Jerusalem

at the Passover Feast, for they also had been there.

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Once morehe visited Cana in Galilee, where he had turned

the water into wine. And there was a certain royal official

whose son lay sick at Capernaum.

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When this man heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea,

he went to him and begged him to come and heal

his son, who was close to death.

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"Unless you people see miraculous signs and wonders,"

Jesus told him, "you will never believe."

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The royal official said, "Sir, come down before my child dies."

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Jesus replied, "You may go. Your son will live."

The man took Jesus at his word and departed.

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While he was still on the way, his servants met him

with the news that his boy was living.

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When he inquired as to the time when his son got better,

they said to him, "The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour." (어제 오후 한 시에)

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Then the father realized that this was the exact time

at which Jesus had said to him, "Your son will live."

So he and all his household believed.

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This is was the second miraculous sign that Jesus performed,

having come from Judea to Galilee.