Thematic Bible: The samaritans
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Then the woman left her water-jar, and went away into the city and began saying to the people. "Come! see a man who has told me everything that I ever did. He can't be the Christ, can he?" They left the city and set out to go to him. read more.
Meanwhile the disciples kept urging him. "Rabbi," they said, "eat something." But he answered, "I have food to eat of which you know nothing." So the disciples began to say to one another, "Can any one have brought him something to eat?" Jesus said to them. "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to accomplish his work. Do you not say, 'It wants yet four months, and then comes the harvest'? Look, I tell you! Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, that they are already white for harvest. The reaper is already receiving wages and gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together. For in this respect the saying is true, 'One sows, another reaps.' I sent you to reap a crop on which you have not toiled. Others have toiled, and you have reaped the benefit of their toil." Many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman when she declared, "He told me everything that I ever did." So when the Samaritans arrived, they began asking him to remain with them; and he stayed there two days. Then many more believed because of what he said, himself; and they told the woman. "We no longer believe because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard him, and we know that this is certainly the Saviour of the world."
Meanwhile the disciples kept urging him. "Rabbi," they said, "eat something." But he answered, "I have food to eat of which you know nothing." So the disciples began to say to one another, "Can any one have brought him something to eat?" Jesus said to them. "My food is to do the will of Him who sent me, and to accomplish his work. Do you not say, 'It wants yet four months, and then comes the harvest'? Look, I tell you! Lift up your eyes and behold the fields, that they are already white for harvest. The reaper is already receiving wages and gathering a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together. For in this respect the saying is true, 'One sows, another reaps.' I sent you to reap a crop on which you have not toiled. Others have toiled, and you have reaped the benefit of their toil." Many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him because of the word of the woman when she declared, "He told me everything that I ever did." So when the Samaritans arrived, they began asking him to remain with them; and he stayed there two days. Then many more believed because of what he said, himself; and they told the woman. "We no longer believe because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard him, and we know that this is certainly the Saviour of the world."
Eagerness for the truth » The samaritans
So when the Samaritans arrived, they began asking him to remain with them; and he stayed there two days.
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So when the Samaritans arrived, they began asking him to remain with them; and he stayed there two days.