The Woman at the Well

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there cometh a woman out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith to her, `Give me to drink;'

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for his disciples were gone away to the city, that they may buy victuals;

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the Samaritan woman therefore saith to him, `How dost thou, being a Jew, ask drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?' for Jews have no dealing with Samaritans.

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Jesus answered and said to her, `If thou hadst known the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked him, and he would have given thee living water.'

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The woman saith to him, `Sir, thou hast not even a vessel to draw with, and the well is deep; whence, then, hast thou the living water?

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Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who did give us the well, and himself out of it did drink, and his sons, and his cattle?'

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Jesus answered and said to her, `Every one who is drinking of this water shall thirst again;

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but whoever may drink of the water that I will give him, may not thirst--to the age; and the water that I will give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up to life age-during.'

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The woman saith unto him, `Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.'

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