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Gospel Reading - Living water

⁷Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus asked her for a drink. 8 He was alone at the time as his disciples had gone into the village to buy some food. ⁹The woman was surprised that a Jew would ask a “despised Samaritan” for anything — usually they wouldn’t even speak to them! — and she remarked about this to Jesus.

¹⁰He replied, “If you only knew what a wonderful gift God has for you, and who I am, you would ask me for some living water!”

¹¹“But you don’t have a rope or a bucket,” she said, “and this is a very deep well! Where would you get this living water? ¹²And besides, are you greater than our ancestor Jacob? How can you offer better water than this which he and his sons and cattle enjoyed?”

¹³Jesus replied that people soon became thirsty again after drinking this water. ¹⁴“But the water I give them,” he said, “becomes a perpetual spring within them, watering them forever with eternal life.”

¹⁵“Please, sir,” the woman said, “give me some of that water! Then I’ll never be thirsty again and won’t have to make this long trip out here every day.”