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John 4 Jacob's Well - Second Miracle
John 4:1 When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that
Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,
2 (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)
3 He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.
4 And he must needs go through Samaria.
5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to
the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
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This is near Jacob's Well
6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his
journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her,
Give me to drink.
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Back in these days, it was not common for a
woman to speak to a man without her husband.
8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a
Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have
no dealings with the Samaritans.
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They separated because of mixed religions
10 Jesus answered and said 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.
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Isaiah 12:3 Therefore with joy shall ye draw
water out of the wells of salvation.
4 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the Lord,
call upon his name, declare his doings among the
people, make mention that his name is exalted.
11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and
the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and
drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water
shall thirst again:
14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never
thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of
water springing up into everlasting life.
15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not,
neither come hither to draw.
16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her,
Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy
husband: in that saidst thou truly.
19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in
Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye
shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the
Father.
22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation
is of the Jews.
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2 Kings 17:24 And the king of Assyria
brought men from Babylon,
and from Cuthah, and from Ava, and from Hamath,
and from Sepharvaim, and placed them in the
cities of Samaria
instead of the children of Israel: and they
possessed Samaria, and dwelt in the
cities thereof.
25 And so it was at the beginning of their
dwelling there, that they feared not the
Lord: therefore the Lord sent
lions among them, which slew
some of them.
26 Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria,
saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and
placed in the cities of Samaria, know
not the manner of the God of the land:
therefore he hath sent lions among them,
and, behold, they slay them,
because they know not the manner of the God of
the land.
27 Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying,
Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought
from thence; and let them go and dwell
there, and let him teach them
the manner of the God of the land.
28 Then one of the priests whom they had carried
away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and
taught them how they should fear the
Lord.
29 Howbeit every nation made gods of
their own, and put them in the houses
of the high places which the Samaritans had
made, every nation in their cities wherein they
dwelt.
30 And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth,
and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of
Hamath made Ashima,
31 And the Avites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and
the Sepharvites burnt their children in
fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the
gods of Sepharvaim.
32 So they feared the Lord, and
made unto themselves of the lowest of them
priests of the high places, which sacrificed for
them in the houses of the high places.
33 They feared the Lord, and served
their own gods, after the manner of the
nations whom they carried away from thence.
34 Unto this day they do after the
former manners: they fear not the Lord,
neither do they after their statutes, or after
their ordinances, or after the
law and commandment which the Lord commanded the
children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;
35 With whom the Lord had made a covenant, and
charged them, saying, Ye shall not fear
other gods, nor bow yourselves
to them, nor serve them, nor
sacrifice to them.
36 But the Lord, who brought you up out
of the land of Egypt with great power and a
stretched out arm, him shall ye fear,
and him shall ye worship, and
to him shall ye do sacrifice.
37 And the statutes, and the ordinances, and the
law, and the commandment, which he wrote for
you, ye shall observe to do for
evermore; and ye shall not fear other
gods.
38 And the covenant that I have made with you
ye shall not forget; neither shall ye
fear other gods.
23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall
worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such
to worship him.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit
and in truth.
25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called
Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
27 And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with
the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with
her?
28 The woman then left her water pot, and went her way into the city, and
saith to the men,
29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not
this the Christ?
30 Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
31 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.
32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of.
33 Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him
ought to eat?
34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me,
and to finish his work.
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I came to do God's work
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Jesus is talking about spiritually meat the
word of God
35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest?
behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; for
they are white already to harvest.
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How many months does Satan have?
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Revelation 9 - 5 months
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Four months before the harvest
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Matthew 13:39 The enemy that sowed them is the
devil; the harvest is the end of the world; and
the reapers are the angels.
36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life
eternal: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice
together.
37 And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men
laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the
saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he
would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
41 And many more believed because of his own word;
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They believe because it's the truth
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These didn't need to see miracles, they believe
what Jesus said
42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying:
for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the
Christ, the Saviour of the world.
43 Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.
44 For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own
country.
45 Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him,
having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for
they also went unto the feast.
46 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water
wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.
47 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.
48 Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye
will
not believe.
49 The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.
50 Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man
believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.
51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him,
saying, Thy son liveth.
52 Then inquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they
said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus
said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole
house.
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Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole
house.
54 This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out
of Judaea into Galilee.
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Second miracle that Jesus did,
Thy son liveth:
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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