John 4:27

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

The Disciples Return Now at that very moment his disciples came back. They were shocked because he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said,“What do you want?” or“Why are you speaking with her?”

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  • Luke 7:39 : 39 Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself,“If this man were a prophet, he would know who and what kind of woman this is who is touching him, that she is a sinner.”
  • John 4:8-9 : 8 (For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies.) 9 So the Samaritan woman said to him,“How can you– a Jew– ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water to drink?”(For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)

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  • John 4:28-30
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    28 Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people,

    29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can’t be the Messiah, can he?”

    30 So they left the town and began coming to him.

  • John 4:4-19
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    4 Conversation With a Samaritan Woman But he had to pass through Samaria.

    5 Now he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

    6 Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.

    7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her,“Give me some water to drink.”

    8 (For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies.)

    9 So the Samaritan woman said to him,“How can you– a Jew– ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water to drink?”(For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)

    10 Jesus answered her,“If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you,‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

    11 “Sir,” the woman said to him,“you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water?

    12 Surely you’re not greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.”

    13 Jesus replied,“Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty again.

    14 But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.”

    15 The woman said to him,“Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”

    16 He said to her,“Go call your husband and come back here.”

    17 The woman replied,“I have no husband.” Jesus said to her,“Right you are when you said,‘I have no husband,’

    18 for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!”

    19 The woman said to him,“Sir, I see that you are a prophet.

  • John 4:25-26
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    25 The woman said to him,“I know that Messiah is coming”(the one called Christ);“whenever he comes, he will tell us everything.”

    26 Jesus said to her,“I, the one speaking to you, am he.”

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    39 The Samaritans Respond Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified,“He told me everything I ever did.”

    40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them. He stayed there two days,

  • John 8:10-11
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    10 Jesus stood up straight and said to her,“Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?”

    11 She replied,“No one, Lord.” And Jesus said,“I do not condemn you either. Go, and from now on do not sin any more.”]]

  • 4 Jesus replied,“Woman, why are you saying this to me? My time has not yet come.”

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    13 They said to her,“Woman, why are you weeping?” Mary replied,“They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have put him!”

    14 When she had said this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not know that it was Jesus.

    15 Jesus said to her,“Woman, why are you weeping? Who are you looking for?” Because she thought he was the gardener, she said to him,“Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will take him.”

  • 23 But he did not answer her a word. Then his disciples came and begged him,“Send her away, because she keeps on crying out after us.”

  • 29 His disciples said,“Look, now you are speaking plainly and not in obscure figures of speech!

  • 42 They said to the woman,“No longer do we believe because of your words, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this one really is the Savior of the world.”

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    31 His disciples said to him,“You see the crowd pressing against you and you say,‘Who touched me?’”

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    4 and said to Jesus,“Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of adultery.

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    37 When John’s two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.

    38 Jesus turned around and saw them following and said to them,“What do you want?” So they said to him,“Rabbi”(which is translated Teacher),“where are you staying?”

  • 28 And when she had said this, Martha went and called her sister Mary, saying privately,“The Teacher is here and is asking for you.”

  • 43 Here I am, standing by the spring. When the young woman goes out to draw water, I’ll say,“Please give me a little water to drink from your jug.”

  • 36 What did he mean by saying,‘You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come’?”

  • 26 So they came to John and said to him,“Rabbi, the one who was with you on the other side of the Jordan River, about whom you testified– see, he is baptizing, and everyone is flocking to him!”

  • 13 He sent two of his disciples and told them,“Go into the city, and a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him.

  • 37 When they found him, they said,“Everyone is looking for you.”

  • 7 When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied,“Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her.”

  • 21 Silently the man watched her with interest to determine if the LORD had made his journey successful or not.

  • 4 Then Jesus, because he knew everything that was going to happen to him, came and asked them,“Who are you looking for?”

  • 44 Then, turning toward the woman, he said to Simon,“Do you see this woman? I entered your house. You gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.

  • 21 Jesus said to her,“Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

  • 17 Abraham’s servant ran to meet her and said,“Please give me a sip of water from your jug.”