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(This happened while Jesus’ followers were in town buying some food.)

The woman said, “I am surprised that you ask me for a drink. You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan.” (Jews are not friends with Samaritans.[a])

10 Jesus said, “You don’t know what God gives. And you don’t know who asked you for a drink. If you knew, you would have asked me, and I would have given you living water.”

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Footnotes

  1. 4:9 Jews . . . Samaritans. This can also be translated “Jews don’t use things that Samaritans have used.”

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