Part 5

003:032 What He has seen and heard, to that He bears witness; but His testimony no one receives.

003:033 Any man who has received His testimony has solemnly declared that God is true.

003:034 For He whom God has sent speaks God's words; for God does not give the Spirit with limitations."

003:035 The Father loves the Son and has entrusted everything to His hands.

003:036 He who believes in the Son has the Life of the Ages; he who disobeys the Son will not enter into Life, but God's anger remains upon him.

004:001 Now as soon as the Master was aware that the Pharisees had heard it said, "Jesus is gaining and baptizing more disciples than John"--

004:002 though Jesus Himself did not baptize them, but His disciples did--

004:003 He left Judaea and returned to Galilee.

004:004 His road lay through Samaria,

004:005 and so He came to Sychar, a town in Samaria near the piece of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

004:006 Jacob's Well was there: and accordingly Jesus, tired out with His journey, sat down by the well to rest. It was about six o'clock in the evening.

004:007 Presently there came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus asked her to give Him some water;

004:008 for His disciples were gone to the town to buy provisions.

004:009 "How is it," replied the woman, "that a Jew like you asks me, who am a woman and a Samaritan, for water?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

004:010 "If you had known God's free gift," replied Jesus, "and who it is that said to you, `Give me some water,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water."

004:011 "Sir," she said, "you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; so where can you get the living water from?

004:012 Are you greater than our forefather Jacob, who gave us the well, and himself drank from it, as did also his sons and his cattle?"

004:013 "Every one," replied Jesus, "who drinks any of this water will be thirsty again;

004:014 but whoever drinks any of the water that I shall give him will never, never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become a fountain within him of water springing up for the Life of the Ages."

004:015 "Sir," said the woman, "give me that water, that I may never be thirsty, nor continually come all the way here to draw from the well."

004:016 "Go and call your husband," said Jesus; "and come back."

004:017 "I have no husband," she replied. "You rightly say that you have no husband," said Jesus;

004:018 "for you have had five husbands, and the man you have at present is not your husband. You have spoken the truth in saying that."

004:019 "Sir," replied the woman, "I see that you are a Prophet.

004:020 Our forefathers worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem."

004:021 "Believe me," said Jesus, "the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

004:022 You worship One of whom you know nothing. We worship One whom we know; for salvation comes from the Jews.

004:023 But a time is coming--nay, has already come--when the true worshippers will worship the Father with true spiritual worship; for indeed the Father desires such worshippers.