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9 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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9 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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10 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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10 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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11 "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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11 "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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12 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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12 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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13 Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,
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13 Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,
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14 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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14 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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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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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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Scripture quoted by permission. Quotations designated (NIV) are from THE HOLY BIBLE: NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by Biblica. All rights reserved worldwide. (New International Version Bible Online) |
