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John 4:1¹Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was winning and baptizing more disciples than JohnCopy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 3:26 John 3:22 2 Cor 4:5 1 Cor 15:47 1 Cor 2:8 Acts 10:36 Jas 2:1 Luke 1:76 Rev 19:16

John 4:2²(although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were),Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 1:13-17 Acts 10:48

John 4:3³he left Judea and set out once more for Galilee.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 10:23 John 10:40 John 11:54 John 3:22 John 1:43 John 2:11 John 3:32 Mark 3:7

John 4:4⁴But he had to pass through Samaria.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 17:11 Luke 9:51-52 Luke 2:49 Matt 10:5-6

John 4:5⁵Now he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Josh 24:32 Gen 33:19 Gen 48:22 John 4:12

John 4:6⁶Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 4:15 Heb 2:17 Matt 8:24 Matt 27:45 Matt 4:2 2 Cor 8:9 John 11:9 Luke 2:7 Luke 9:58

John 4:7⁷A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me some water to drink.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 10:42 1 Kgs 17:10 John 19:28 2 Sam 23:15-17 Gen 24:43 John 4:10

John 4:8⁸(For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies. )Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 6:5-7 Luke 9:13 John 4:39 John 4:5

John 4:9⁹So 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.)Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 10:28 2 Kgs 17:24-41 John 8:48 Matt 10:5 Luke 17:16-19 Acts 1:8 John 4:27 Luke 10:33 Ezra 4:1-24 Luke 9:52-56

John 4:10¹⁰Jesus 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.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 4:14 Rev 7:17 John 7:37-39 Isa 44:3 Rev 21:6 John 3:16 Ps 36:8-9 Jer 2:13 Rev 22:1-2 Zech 14:8

John 4:11¹¹“Sir,” the woman said to him, “you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water?Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 2:14 John 3:4

John 4:12¹²Surely 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.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 8:53 Matt 12:42 Heb 3:3 Isa 53:2-3 John 4:6

John 4:13¹³Jesus replied, “Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty again.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 6:27 Isa 65:13-14 Luke 16:24

John 4:14¹⁴But 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.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 7:38-39 John 6:35 Isa 49:10 Rev 7:16 Eph 1:13-14 John 11:26 John 6:58 1 John 5:20 2 Cor 1:22 Rom 6:23

John 4:15¹⁵The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 6:34 Ps 4:6 Rom 8:5 Jas 4:3 John 17:2-3 John 6:26 Rom 6:23 1 John 5:20

John 4:16¹⁶He said to her, “Go call your husband and come back here.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Heb 4:13 John 21:17 Rev 2:23 John 2:24-25 John 1:42 John 1:47-48 John 4:18

John 4:17¹⁷The woman replied, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “Right you are when you said, ‘I have no husband,’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

John 4:18¹⁸for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 7:10-11 Jer 3:20 Rom 7:3 Mark 10:12 Ezek 16:32 Gen 20:3 Gen 34:2 Gen 34:31 Gen 34:7-8 Num 5:29

John 4:19¹⁹The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 6:14 Luke 7:39 John 9:17 Luke 7:16 John 7:40 Matt 21:11 1 Cor 14:24-25 2 Kgs 5:26 2 Kgs 6:12 Luke 24:19

John 4:20²⁰Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Deut 12:5-11 Gen 33:18-20 2 Chr 7:12 Deut 11:29 Deut 27:12 Gen 12:6-7 1 Chr 21:26 1 Chr 22:1 1 Kgs 9:3 2 Chr 6:6

John 4:21²¹Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Tim 2:8 Eph 2:18 Mal 1:11 John 4:23 Matt 18:20 Eph 3:14 Ezek 14:3 John 16:2 John 16:32 John 5:28

John 4:22²²You people worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 17:23 Isa 2:3 Rom 9:4-5 Luke 24:47 Acts 17:30 Ps 147:19 Rom 3:1-2 Zeph 3:16-17 Heb 7:14 Ps 68:20

John 4:23²³But a time is coming—and now is here —when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Phil 3:3 Matt 15:7-9 John 5:25 Gal 4:6 Rom 8:26 Jude 1:20-21 Eph 6:18 Isa 29:13 John 12:23 John 4:21

John 4:24²⁴God is spirit, and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Cor 3:17 Matt 15:8-9 Phil 3:3 Ps 51:17 Isa 57:15 1 Sam 16:7 1 Tim 1:17 Ps 66:18 Ps 50:23 2 Cor 1:12

John 4:25²⁵The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (the one called Christ); “whenever he comes, he will tell us everything.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 1:49 Dan 9:24-26 John 4:29 John 4:42 Matt 1:16 John 1:41-42 Deut 18:15-18

John 4:26²⁶Jesus said to her, “I, the one speaking to you, am he.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 8:24 Mark 14:61-62 John 9:35-37 Rom 10:20-21 Luke 13:30 Matt 26:63-64 Matt 16:20 Matt 20:15

John 4:27²⁷Now 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?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 7:39 John 4:8-9

John 4:28²⁸Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 4:7 Luke 24:33 Matt 28:8 Luke 24:9 Mark 16:8-10

John 4:29²⁹“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can’t be the Messiah, can he?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 22:17 1 Cor 14:24-25 John 1:41-49 John 4:25 John 4:17-18 John 7:26 John 7:31 Matt 12:23

John 4:30³⁰So they left the town and began coming to him.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 10:33 Acts 13:42 Acts 8:5-8 Isa 60:8 Luke 17:16-18 Matt 11:20-24 Matt 12:40-42 Matt 2:1-3 Matt 20:16 Matt 8:11-12

John 4:31³¹Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, eat something.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 24:33 John 1:38

John 4:32³²But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Job 23:12 Ps 119:103 John 4:34 Prov 18:20 Jer 15:16 Ps 63:5 Prov 14:10 Ps 25:14 Isa 53:11 Rev 2:17

John 4:33³³So the disciples began to say to one another, “No one brought him anything to eat, did they?”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 9:45 Matt 16:6-11

John 4:34³⁴Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 6:38 John 5:30 Job 23:12 John 17:4 John 19:30 John 4:32 Matt 26:39 John 5:36 Luke 19:10 Ps 40:8

John 4:35³⁵Don’t you say, ‘There are four more months and then comes the harvest?’ I tell you, look up and see that the fields are already white for harvest!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Luke 10:2-3 Matt 9:37-38

John 4:36³⁶The one who reaps receives pay and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that the one who sows and the one who reaps can rejoice together.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jas 5:19-20 1 Cor 3:5-9 Rom 1:13 2 Tim 4:7-8 Prov 11:30 Dan 12:3 Rom 6:22 1 Cor 9:19-23 Phil 2:15-16 1 Tim 4:16

John 4:37³⁷For in this instance the saying is true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mic 6:15 Job 31:8 Judg 6:3 Luke 19:21

John 4:38³⁸I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 1:7 2 Chr 36:15 Acts 10:42-43 1 Pet 1:11-12 Acts 10:37-38 Acts 8:14-17 Acts 4:4 Acts 5:14 Acts 6:7 Acts 8:4-8

John 4:39³⁹Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified, “He told me everything I ever did.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 4:29 John 10:41-42 John 4:5 John 11:45 John 4:42

John 4:40⁴⁰So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them. He stayed there two days,Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 3:20 Luke 24:29 2 Cor 6:1-2 Acts 16:15 Gen 32:26 Luke 19:5-10 Luke 8:38 Jer 14:8 Prov 4:13 Song 3:4

John 4:41⁴¹and because of his word many more believed.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Cor 2:4-5 Acts 1:8 Acts 8:12 Acts 8:25 Matt 7:28-29 John 6:63 Acts 15:3 Gen 49:10 Heb 4:13 John 7:46

John 4:42⁴²They 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.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 John 4:14 1 John 5:20 1 Tim 4:10 John 1:29 2 Cor 5:19 Acts 4:12 John 3:14-18 John 6:68-69 Acts 17:11-12 Isa 45:22

John 4:43⁴³After the two days he departed from there to Galilee.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 4:40 Mark 7:27-28 Matt 15:21-24 Matt 4:13 Rom 15:8 John 1:42 John 4:46

John 4:44⁴⁴(For Jesus himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.)Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 13:57 Luke 4:24 Mark 6:4

John 4:45⁴⁵So when he came to Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him because they had seen all the things he had done in Jerusalem at the feast (for they themselves had gone to the feast).Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 2:23 John 2:13-16 Deut 16:16 John 3:2 Luke 9:53 Luke 2:42-44 Luke 8:40 Matt 4:23-24

John 4:46⁴⁶Now he came again to Cana in Galilee where he had made the water wine. In Capernaum there was a certain royal official whose son was sick.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 2:1-11 Ps 50:15 Hos 5:15 Luke 7:2 Luke 8:42 Matt 15:22 Matt 9:18 John 21:2 Matt 17:14-15

John 4:47⁴⁷When he heard that Jesus had come back from Judea to Galilee, he went to him and begged him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Acts 9:38 John 11:21 John 11:32 John 4:3 Luke 7:6-8 Luke 8:41 Mark 10:47 Mark 2:1-3 Mark 6:55-56 John 4:54

John 4:48⁴⁸So Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders you will never believe!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 20:29 1 Cor 1:22 Heb 2:4 Dan 4:2 John 12:37 Acts 2:22 Luke 16:31 Rom 15:19 2 Cor 12:12 Acts 14:3

John 4:49⁴⁹“Sir,” the official said to him, “come down before my child dies.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mark 5:23 Mark 5:35-36 Ps 40:17 Ps 88:10-12

John 4:50⁵⁰Jesus told him, “Go home; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and set off for home.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Matt 8:13 Mark 7:29-30 Rom 4:20-21 Luke 17:14 Acts 14:9-10 Heb 11:19 John 11:40 Mark 9:23-24 1 Kgs 17:13-15

John 4:51⁵¹While he was on his way down, his slaves met him and told him that his son was going to live.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 17:23

John 4:52⁵²So he asked them the time when his condition began to improve, and they told him, “Yesterday at one o’clock in the afternoon the fever left him.”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AI

John 4:53⁵³Then the father realized that it was the very time Jesus had said to him, “Your son will live,” and he himself believed along with his entire household.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ps 107:20 Luke 19:9 Acts 11:14 Acts 16:34 Acts 18:8 Matt 8:13 Ps 33:9 Acts 16:15 Acts 2:39 Matt 8:8-9

John 4:54⁵⁴Jesus did this as his second miraculous sign when he returned from Judea to Galilee.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:John 4:45 John 2:1-11

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