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The Gospel of John strives to persuade the hearts and minds of the undecided that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God, and the only source of eternal life. St. John, as one of the twelve and a witness to Christ’s glory, sets his Gospel in a cosmic context, revealing Christ as the eternal light of God, the truth and voice of the father, the divine glory shining in the midst of men. In The Gospel...

through, He comes to a city of Samaria called Sychar (present location unknown; it is possibly to be identified with modern Askar). (The present tense is used in the following narrative, allowing us to follow our Lord in His conversation with the woman at the well.) In this city, there was a plot of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph, and on this plot of land there was a fountain-fed well (the Gr. word is pege, the usual word for fountain or spring; compare its use in Rev. 8:10 and for the internal
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