³⁹ Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I have ever done.”^(A)

²⁹ “Come and see a man who told me everything I have ever done! He cannot be the Messiah,^[a] can he?”^(A)

⁵ So he came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.^(A)

⁴¹ Many came to him, and they were saying, “John performed no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.”^{(A) 42} And many believed in him there.^(B)

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⁴⁵ Many of the Jews, therefore, who had come with Mary and had seen what Jesus did believed in him.^(A)

⁴² They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world.”^(A)