Jesus saith unto her, “Thou saidst well, I have no husband:  for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband:  this hast thou said truly.”

The woman saith unto him, “Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.  Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.”

Jesus saith unto her, “Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father.  Ye worship that which ye know not:  we worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.  But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth:  for such doth the Father seek to be his worshippers.  God is a Spirit:  and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

The woman saith unto him, “I know that Messiah cometh (he that is called Christ):  when he is come, he will declare unto us all things.”

Jesus saith unto her, “I that speak unto thee am he.”

PREACHING TO THE SAMARITANS.

And upon this came his disciples; and they marvelled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no man said, “What seekest thou?” or, “Why speakest thou with her?”

So the woman left her waterpot, and went away into the city, and saith to the people, “Come, see a man, who told me all things that ever I did:  can this be the Christ?”

They went out of the city, and were coming to him.

In the mean while the disciples prayed him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

But he said unto them, “I have meat to eat that ye know not.”

The disciples therefore said one to another, “Hath any man brought him aught to eat?”

Jesus saith unto them, “My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.  Say not ye, ’There are yet four months, and then cometh the harvest’? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white already unto harvest.  He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal; that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.  For herein is the saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.  I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored:  others have labored and ye are entered into their labor.”

And from that city many of the Samaritans believed on him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me all things that ever I did.”

So when the Samaritans came unto him, they besought him to abide with them:  and he abode there two days.  And many more believed because of his word; and they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of thy speaking:  for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.”

=His year of popularity=

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