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the way lay through Samaria
so he arrived at the Samaritan city of Sychar
near to the land that Jacob gave his son Joseph
where Jacob's spring was
Jesus tired of his travels sat by the spring at about the sixth hour
a Samaritan woman came for water
Jesus said Give me a drink for his disciples
had gone to the city for food the Samaritan answered
Why do you ask me being a Jew I'm a Samaritan
Jesus said If you knew God's gift and who asks you
for a drink you would have asked for and had the water of life
she says Sir you haven't a pot the well is deep What water of life?
Jacob's better are you who gave us this well for himself and his sons and his
cattle?
Jesus said Who drinks this will thirst again who drinks of mine
shall never thirst again it shall be a wellspring of eternal life in him
she says Sir give me some to save me coming here with a crock
Jesus says Call your husband and come she said I have no husband
Jesus says Precisely I have no husband you've had five and the latest
isn't your husband exactly she says Sir I see you are a prophet
our ancestors worshipped on this mountain and you say Jerusalem is the place
where men must worship Jesus says Woman of a truth the time comes
when neither here nor there shall one worship the Father
you don't know what you worship but we do for salvation is of the Jews
but the time comes it's time to worship the Father in spirit and truth
for he seeks that in his worshippers God is a spirit his worshippers
must worship in spirit and truth she says Messiah is coming
who will tell all Jesus says I who speak to you am he
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