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Third Sunday in Lent
John 4;5-42

So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that
Jacob had given to his son Joseph.  Jacob's well was there, and Jesus,
tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well.  It was about noon.

A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, "Give me a
drink."  (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.)  The Samaritan
woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman
of Samaria?" (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) Jesus
answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying
to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have
given you living water."  The woman said to him, "Sir, you have no bucket,
and the well is deep.  Where do you get that living water?  Are you
greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons
and his flocks drank from it?"  Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of
this water will be thirsty again, but those who drink of the water that I
will give them will never be thirsty.  The water that I will give will
become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life."  The woman
said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or
have to keep coming here to draw water."

Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come back."  The woman
answered him, "I have no husband."  Jesus said to her, "You are right in
saying, 'I have no husband'; for you have had five husbands, and the one
you have now is not your husband.  What you have said is true!"  The woman
said to him, "Sir, I see that you are a prophet.  Our ancestors worshiped
on this mountain, but you sa y that the place where people must worship is
in Jerusalem."  Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming
when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in
Jerusalem.  You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for
salvation is from the Jews.