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John 4:11 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water? "
John 4:11
Verse in Context
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9 The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water?
12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,
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John 4:1
"Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John"
John 4:2
"(although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples),"
John 4:3
"he left Judea and departed into Galilee."
John 4:4
"He needed to pass through Samaria."
John 4:5
"So he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph."
John 4:6
"Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour."
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