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Passage Lookup: John 4:1-30

N84New International Version (1984)
NIVNew International Version
John 4:1
- Variant Count: 1
The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John,
John 4:1
- Variant Count: 6 (31%)
Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John—
John 4:2
- Variant Count: None
although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples.
John 4:2
- Variant Count: 1 (7%)
although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples.
John 4:3
- Variant Count: 6
When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
John 4:3
- Variant Count: 2 (16%)
So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
John 4:4
- Variant Count: None
Now he had to go through Samaria.
John 4:4
- Variant Count: 1 (12%)
Now he had to go through Samaria.
John 4:5
- Variant Count: None
So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
John 4:5
- Variant Count: 1 (4%)
So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
John 4:6
- Variant Count: 2
Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
John 4:6
- Variant Count: 2 (8%)
Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
John 4:7
- Variant Count: 2
When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?"
John 4:7
- Variant Count: 3 (15%)
When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?"
John 4:8
- Variant Count: 1
(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
John 4:8
- Variant Count: 1 (9%)
(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
John 4:9
- Variant Count: 3
The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. )
John 4:9
- Variant Count: 2 (6%)
The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
John 4:10
- Variant Count: 2
Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."
John 4:10
- Variant Count: 3 (8%)
Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."
John 4:11
- Variant Count: 2
"Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?
John 4:11
- Variant Count: 2 (8%)
"Sir," the woman said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?
John 4:12
- Variant Count: 2
Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?"
John 4:12
- Variant Count: 2 (7%)
Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?"
John 4:13
- Variant Count: 1
Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,
John 4:13
- Variant Count: 2 (16%)
Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,
John 4:14
- Variant Count: 4
but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
John 4:14
- Variant Count: 5 (16%)
but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life."
John 4:15
- Variant Count: 2
The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water."
John 4:15
- Variant Count: 3 (11%)
The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water."
John 4:16
- Variant Count: 2
He told her, "Go, call your husband and come back."
John 4:16
- Variant Count: 3 (27%)
He told her, "Go, call your husband and come back."
John 4:17
- Variant Count: 2
"I have no husband," she replied.
John 4:17
- Variant Count: 15 (71%)
"I have no husband," she replied. Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband.
John 4:18
- Variant Count: 10
Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true."
John 4:18
- Variant Count: 2 (7%)
The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true."
John 4:19
- Variant Count: 2
"Sir," the woman said, "I can see that you are a prophet.
John 4:19
- Variant Count: 3 (23%)
"Sir," the woman said, "I can see that you are a prophet.
John 4:20
- Variant Count: 2
Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem."
John 4:20
- Variant Count: 3 (14%)
Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem."
John 4:21
- Variant Count: 3
Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
John 4:21
- Variant Count: 4 (17%)
"Woman," Jesus replied, "believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
John 4:22
- Variant Count: None
You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
John 4:22
- Variant Count: 1 (4%)
You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
John 4:23
- Variant Count: None
Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
John 4:23
- Variant Count: 1 (2%)
Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
John 4:24
- Variant Count: 1
God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."
John 4:24
- Variant Count: 3 (20%)
God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth."
John 4:25
- Variant Count: 5
The woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us."
John 4:25
- Variant Count: 5 (23%)
The woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us."
John 4:26
- Variant Count: 5
Then Jesus declared, "I who speak to you am he."
John 4:26
- Variant Count: 7 (58%)
Then Jesus declared, "I, the one speaking to you—I am he."
John 4:27
- Variant Count: 4
Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"
John 4:27
- Variant Count: 5 (16%)
Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, "What do you want?" or "Why are you talking with her?"
John 4:28
- Variant Count: None
Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people,
John 4:28
- Variant Count: 1 (5%)
Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people,
John 4:29
- Variant Count: 3
"Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?"
John 4:29
- Variant Count: 3 (17%)
"Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?"
John 4:30
- Variant Count: None
They came out of the town and made their way toward him.
John 4:30
- Variant Count: 1 (7%)
They came out of the town and made their way toward him.
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