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    "n": 4,
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JHN-4:1",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.1",
        "text": "When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John"
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JHN-4:2",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.2",
        "text": "(although Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples),"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JHN-4:3",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.3",
        "text": "he left Judea, and departed again into Galilee."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JHN-4:4",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.4",
        "text": "And he must needs pass through Samaria."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JHN-4:5",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.5",
        "text": "So he cometh to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph:"
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JHN-4:6",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.6",
        "text": "and Jacob`s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JHN-4:7",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.7",
        "text": "There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JHN-4:8",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.8",
        "text": "For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JHN-4:9",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.9",
        "text": "The Samaritan woman therefore saith unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a Samaritan woman? (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JHN-4:10",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.10",
        "text": "Jesus answered and said unto unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JHN-4:11",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.11",
        "text": "The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then hast thou that living water?"
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JHN-4:12",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.12",
        "text": "Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle?"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JHN-4:13",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.13",
        "text": "Jesus answered and said unto her, Every one that drinketh of this water shall thirst again:"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JHN-4:14",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.14",
        "text": "but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JHN-4:15",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.15",
        "text": "The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come all the way hither to draw."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JHN-4:16",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.16",
        "text": "Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JHN-4:17",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.17",
        "text": "The woman answered and said unto him, I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her, Thou saidst well, I have no husband:"
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JHN-4:18",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.18",
        "text": "for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: this hast thou said truly."
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JHN-4:19",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.19",
        "text": "The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JHN-4:20",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.20",
        "text": "Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JHN-4:21",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.21",
        "text": "Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "JHN-4:22",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.22",
        "text": "Ye worship that which ye know not: we worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "JHN-4:23",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.23",
        "text": "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."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "JHN-4:24",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.24",
        "text": "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "JHN-4:25",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.25",
        "text": "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."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "JHN-4:26",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.26",
        "text": "Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am [he]."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "JHN-4:27",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.27",
        "text": "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?"
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "JHN-4:28",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.28",
        "text": "So the woman left her waterpot, and went away into the city, and saith to the people,"
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "JHN-4:29",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.29",
        "text": "Come, see a man, who told me all things that [ever] I did: can this be the Christ?"
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "JHN-4:30",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.30",
        "text": "They went out of the city, and were coming to him."
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "JHN-4:31",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.31",
        "text": "In the mean while the disciples prayed him, saying, Rabbi, eat."
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "JHN-4:32",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.32",
        "text": "But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not."
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "JHN-4:33",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.33",
        "text": "The disciples therefore said one to another, Hath any man brought him [aught] to eat?"
      },{
        "n": 34,
        "refId": "JHN-4:34",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.34",
        "text": "Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work."
      },{
        "n": 35,
        "refId": "JHN-4:35",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.35",
        "text": "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."
      },{
        "n": 36,
        "refId": "JHN-4:36",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.36",
        "text": "He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal; that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together."
      },{
        "n": 37,
        "refId": "JHN-4:37",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.37",
        "text": "For herein is the saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth."
      },{
        "n": 38,
        "refId": "JHN-4:38",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.38",
        "text": "I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored: others have labored, and ye are entered into their labor."
      },{
        "n": 39,
        "refId": "JHN-4:39",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.39",
        "text": "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."
      },{
        "n": 40,
        "refId": "JHN-4:40",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.40",
        "text": "So when the Samaritans came unto him, they besought him to abide with them: and he abode there two days."
      },{
        "n": 41,
        "refId": "JHN-4:41",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.41",
        "text": "And many more believed because of his word;"
      },{
        "n": 42,
        "refId": "JHN-4:42",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.42",
        "text": "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."
      },{
        "n": 43,
        "refId": "JHN-4:43",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.43",
        "text": "And after the two days he went forth from thence into Galilee."
      },{
        "n": 44,
        "refId": "JHN-4:44",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.44",
        "text": "For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honor in his own country."
      },{
        "n": 45,
        "refId": "JHN-4:45",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.45",
        "text": "So when he came into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast."
      },{
        "n": 46,
        "refId": "JHN-4:46",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.46",
        "text": "He came therefore again unto Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum."
      },{
        "n": 47,
        "refId": "JHN-4:47",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.47",
        "text": "When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought [him] that he would come down, and heal his son; for he was at the point of death."
      },{
        "n": 48,
        "refId": "JHN-4:48",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.48",
        "text": "Jesus therefore said unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will in no wise believe."
      },{
        "n": 49,
        "refId": "JHN-4:49",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.49",
        "text": "The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die."
      },{
        "n": 50,
        "refId": "JHN-4:50",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.50",
        "text": "Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. The man believed the word that Jesus spake unto him, and he went his way."
      },{
        "n": 51,
        "refId": "JHN-4:51",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.51",
        "text": "And as he was now going down, his servants met him, saying, that his son lived."
      },{
        "n": 52,
        "refId": "JHN-4:52",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.52",
        "text": "So he inquired of them the hour when he began to amend. They said therefore unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him."
      },{
        "n": 53,
        "refId": "JHN-4:53",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.53",
        "text": "So the father knew that [it was] at that hour in which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house."
      },{
        "n": 54,
        "refId": "JHN-4:54",
        "verseRef": "JHN.4.54",
        "text": "This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judaea into Galilee."
      }
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