{"id":1125,"date":"2008-01-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/contentfeeds\/2008\/01\/gospel-reading-for-thursday-ja-3.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T00:00:00","slug":"gospel-reading-for-thursday-ja-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/contentfeeds\/2008\/01\/gospel-reading-for-thursday-ja-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Gospel Reading for Thursday, January 24, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John 4:1-15<br \/>\nNow when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard, \u201cJesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John\u201d 2 \u2014although it was not Jesus himself but his disciples who baptized\u2014 3 he left Judea and started back to Galilee. 4 But he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob&#8217;s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon.<br \/>\n7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, \u201cGive me a drink.\u201d 8 (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, \u201cHow is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?\u201d (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered her, \u201cIf you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, \u2018Give me a drink,\u2019 you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.\u201d 11 The woman said to him, \u201cSir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well, and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?\u201d 13 Jesus said to her, \u201cEveryone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 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.\u201d 15 The woman said to him, \u201cSir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.\u201d<br \/>\n<font>From the <a target='_blank' href='http:\/\/www.nrsv.net'>New Revised Standard Version<\/a>. 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