John 4
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John 4:7-14

7Then a woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink”—

8For His disciples had gone off into the city to buy food—

9The Samaritan woman asked Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?” (For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.)

10Jesus answered her, “If you knew [about] God’s gift [of eternal life], and who it is who says, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him [instead], and He would have given you living water (eternal life).”

11She said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with [no bucket and rope] and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water?

12Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and who used to drink from it himself, and his sons and his cattle also?”

13Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.

14But whoever drinks the water that I give him will never be thirsty again. But the water that I give him will become in him a spring of water [satisfying his thirst for God] welling up [continually flowing, bubbling within him] to eternal life.”

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