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St John 4:2-14 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

2. (Though Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples,)

3. He left Judea, and went again into Galilee.

4. And he was of necessity to pass through Samaria.

5. He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, which is called Sichar, near the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

6. Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.

7. There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus saith to her: Give me to drink.

8. For his disciples were gone into the city to buy meats.

9. Then that Samaritan woman saith to him: How dost thou, being a Jew, ask of me to drink, who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews do not communicate with the Samaritans.

10. Jesus answered, and said to her: If thou didst know the gift of God, and who he is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou perhaps wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

11. The woman saith to him: Sir, thou hast nothing wherein to draw, and the well is deep; from whence then hast thou living water?

12. Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

13. Jesus answered, and said to her: Whosoever drinketh of this water, shall thirst again; but he that shall drink of the water that I will give him, shall not thirst for ever:

14. But the water that I will give him, shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting.

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