John 4:8

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

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  • Luke 9:13 : 13 But he said to them,“You give them something to eat.” They replied,“We have no more than five loaves and two fish– unless we go and buy food for all these people.”
  • John 4:5 : 5 Now he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
  • John 4:39 : 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.”
  • John 6:5-7 : 5 Then Jesus, when he looked up and saw that a large crowd was coming to him, said to Philip,“Where can we buy bread so that these people may eat?” 6 (Now Jesus said this to test him, for he knew what he was going to do.) 7 Philip replied,“Two hundred silver coins worth of bread would not be enough for them, for each one to get a little.”

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    2(although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were),

    3he left Judea and set out once more for Galilee.

    4Conversation With a Samaritan Woman But he had to pass through Samaria.

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

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

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

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

    27The 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?”

    28Then 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?”

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

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    32But he said to them,“I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”

    33So the disciples began to say to one another,“No one brought him anything to eat, did they?”

    34Jesus said to them,“My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.

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    9So 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.)

    10Jesus 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?

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    13He 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.

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

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    4(Now the Jewish Feast of the Passover was near.)

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    35When it was already late, his disciples came to him and said,“This is an isolated place and it is already very late.

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    12Now the day began to draw to a close, so the twelve came and said to Jesus,“Send the crowd away, so they can go into the surrounding villages and countryside and find lodging and food, because we are in an isolated place.”

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