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1 When Yashua (Jesus) realized that the Pharisees had discovered that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John, 2 (although it wasn't Yashua (Jesus) who was baptizing, but his disciples), 3 So he came to the Samaritan city of Sychar, near to the field that Jacob had given his son Joseph. 4 Jacob's well was there, and Yashua (Jesus), who was tired from the journey, sat straight down beside the well. It was around noon. 5 A Samaritan woman came to fetch water. Yashua (Jesus) said to her, “Please could you give me a drink?” 6 “You're a Jew, and I'm a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” the woman replied, for Jews don't associate with Samaritans. 7 Yashua (Jesus) answered her, “If you only recognized God (Elohim)'s gift, and who is asking you, ‘Please could you give me a drink?’ you would have asked him and he would have given you the water of life.” 8 “Sir, you don't have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get the water of life from?” she replied. 9 “Our father Jacob gave us the well. He drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock. Are you greater than he?” 10 Yashua (Jesus) answered, “Everyone who drinks water from this well will become thirsty again. 11 But those who drink the water I give won't ever be thirsty again. The water I give becomes a bubbling spring of water inside them, bringing them eternal life.” 12 “Sir,” replied the woman, “Please give me this water so I won't be thirsty, and I won't have to come here to fetch water!” 13 “Go and call your husband, and come back here,” Yashua (Jesus) told her. 14 “I don't have a husband,” the woman answered. “You're right in saying you don't have a husband,” Yashua (Jesus) told her. 15 “You've had five husbands, and the one you're living with now is not your husband. So what you say is true!” 16 “I can see you're a prophet, sir,” the woman replied. 17 “Tell me this: our ancestors worshiped here on this mountain, but you say that Jerusalem is where we must worship.” 18 Yashua (Jesus) replied, “Believe me the time is coming when you won't worship the Father either on this mountain or in Jerusalem. 19 You really don't know the God (Elohim) you're worshiping, while we worship the God (Elohim) we know, for salvation comes from the Jews. 20 But the time is coming—and in fact it's here already—when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for these are the kind of worshipers the Father wants. 21 God (Elohim) is Spirit, so worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.” 22 The woman said, “Well, I know that the Messiah is coming,” (the one who is called Christ). “When he comes he will explain it all to us.” 23 Yashua (Jesus) replied, “I AM—the one who is speaking to you.” 24 Just then the disciples returned. They were shocked that he was talking to a woman, but none of them asked “What are you doing?” or “Why are you talking with her?” 25 The woman left her water jar behind and ran back to the town, telling the people, 26 “Come and meet a man who told me everything I ever did! Could this be the Messiah?” 27 Meanwhile Yashua (Jesus)' disciples were urging him, “Rabbi, please eat something!” 28 But Yashua (Jesus) replied, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.” 29 “Did someone bring him food?” the disciples asked one another. 30 Yashua (Jesus) told them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me, and to complete his work. 31 Don't you have a saying, ‘four more months until harvest?’ Open your eyes and look around! The crops in the fields are ripe, ready for harvest. 32 So the proverb ‘one sows, another reaps,’ is true. 33 I sent you to reap what you didn't work for. Others did the hard work and you have reaped the benefits of what they did.” 34 Many Samaritans from that town trusted in him because of what the woman said: “He told me everything I ever did.” 35 So when they came to see him they pleaded with him to stay with them. He stayed for two days, 36 They said to the woman, “Now our trust in him isn't just because of what you told us but because we have heard him for ourselves. We're convinced that he really is the Savior of the world.” 37 But when he arrived in Galilee, the people welcomed him, because they had also been at the Passover feast and had seen everything he'd done in Jerusalem. 38 He visited Cana in Galilee again, where he had turned water into wine. Nearby in the town of Capernaum lived a royal official whose son was very sick. 39 When he heard that Yashua (Jesus) had returned from Judea to Galilee, he went to Yashua (Jesus) and begged him to come and heal his son who was close to death. 40 “Unless you see signs and wonders you people really won't trust me,” said Yashua (Jesus). 41 “Lord, just come before my child dies,” the official pleaded. 42 “Go on home,” Yashua (Jesus) told him. “Your son will live!” The man trusted what Yashua (Jesus) told him and left for home. 43 While he was on his way, his servants met him with the news that his son was alive and recovering. 44 He asked them what time it was when his son began to get better. “Yesterday at one p.m. the fever left him,” they told him. 45 Then the father realized this was the precise time when Yashua (Jesus) had told him, “Your son will live!” So he and everyone in his household trusted in Yashua (Jesus).