world, that he had sent his Sox into it, to give everlasting life to all who would believe in him as a SAVIOUR, and follow his doctrine; but that there would be many wicked people in the world, who would not believe in the Soy of Gop, who was come down Avom Rosvo

Our SAVIOUR and the Woman of Samaria. PART of the Jewish Rulers were Pharisees and part Sadducees; these two Sects disagreed with each other in some points of Religion, but they all agreed in setting themselves against

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the doctrine of CHRIST; and the Pharisees, in particular, were very spiteful to him, and wished to put him to death.

When our SAVIOUR was going into Galilee, he turned out of his road to avoid the Pharisees, because the time was not yet come for him to give up his life for the sins of the world; and he passed through Samaria. The people who inhabited this country were called Samaritans; they followed the Law of Moses in many things, but differed from the Jews in some matters; which occasioned such hatred betwixt them, that a Jew would not so much as converse with a Samaritan.

* Map of Canaan, G, H, I, J.

When our Lord had walked a great way, he sat down to rest by the side of a well, called Jacob's well, because it had once belonged to that Patriarch.* And there came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Our LORD said to the woman, Give me to drink. The woman said unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, asketh drink of me who am a woman of Samaria? Then JESUS told her, that if she would ask of him, he would give her living water, by which he meant Salvation. The woman said, that she knew the MESSIAH, who is called CHRIST, would soon come, and teach how GOD should be worshipped. Jesus said Map of Canaan, 4 E.

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unto her, I that speak unto thee am HE. The woman of Samaria believed him, and went into the city and told the people that she had found the CHRIST; and many of the Samaritans, besides the woman, believed on him ; and he staid three days in their city, and taught them that God is a Spirit, and that they who worship GoD must worship him in spirit and in truth; and many other things JESUS preached to the Samaritans.