John 4:40

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Gen 32:26 : 26 The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said, "I won't let you go, unless you bless me."
  • Prov 4:13 : 13 Take firm hold of instruction. Don't let her go. Keep her, for she is your life.
  • Song 3:4 : 4 I had scarcely passed from them, when I found him whom my soul loves. I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, into the room of her who conceived me.
  • Jer 14:8 : 8 You hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of trouble, why should you be as a foreigner in the land, and as a wayfaring man who turns aside to stay for a night?
  • Luke 8:38 : 38 But the man from whom the demons had gone out begged him that he might go with him, but Jesus sent him away, saying,
  • Luke 10:39 : 39 She had a sister called Mary, who also sat at Jesus' feet, and heard his word.
  • Luke 19:5-9 : 5 When Jesus came to the place, he looked up and saw him, and said to him, "Zacchaeus, hurry and come down, for today I must stay at your house." 6 He hurried, came down, and received him joyfully. 7 When they saw it, they all murmured, saying, "He has gone in to lodge with a man who is a sinner." 8 Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much." 9 Jesus said to him, "Today, salvation has come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham. 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost."
  • Luke 24:29 : 29 They urged him, saying, "Stay with us, for it is almost evening, and the day is almost over." He went in to stay with them.
  • Acts 16:15 : 15 When she and her household were baptized, she begged us, saying, "If you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house, and stay." So she persuaded us.
  • 2 Cor 6:1-2 : 1 Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain, 2 for he says, "At an acceptable time I listened to you, in a day of salvation I helped you." Behold, now is the acceptable time. Behold, now is the day of salvation.
  • Rev 3:20 : 20 Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, then I will come in to him, and will dine with him, and he with me.

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