NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 17

John 4:17

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The woman answered, “I have no husband.”

Jesus said to her, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’

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John 4:14–20

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but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

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The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.”

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Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”

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The woman answered, “I have no husband.”

Jesus said to her, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’

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for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.”

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The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.

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Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”

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