From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I have done.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
John 4:39 in context
John 4:36–42
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He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
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For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’
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I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
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From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I have done.”
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So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.
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Many more believed because of his word.
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They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”
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