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For the One whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives the Spirit without limit.

"You are a Jew," said the woman. "How can You ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)

Jesus answered, "If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water."

You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.

But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him.

Do you not say, 'There are still four months until the harvest'? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest.

Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together.

For in this case the saying 'One sows and another reaps' is true.

I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the hard work, and now you have taken up their labor."

They said to the woman, "We now believe not only because of your words; we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man truly is the Savior of the world."

After two days, Jesus left for Galilee.

Yet when He arrived, the Galileans welcomed Him. They had seen all the great things He had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they had gone there as well.

One man there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.

so the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "This is the Sabbath! It is unlawful for you to carry your mat."

But the man who was healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away while the crowd was there.

So Jesus replied, "Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, unless He sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does.

For just as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, so also the Son gives life to whom He wishes.

For as the Father has life in Himself, so also He has granted the Son to have life in Himself.

Do not be amazed at this, for the hour is coming when all who are in their graves will hear His voice

John was a lamp that burned and gave light, and you were willing for a season to bask in his light.