Should The Samaritans Continue To Believe In Jesus?

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After the extended dialogue with Jesus, she believed and realized that Jesus is truly God and
“left her water jar and went into the town and said to the people, “Come see a man who told me everything I have done. Could he possibly be the Messiah” (4:28-29)? She was truly converted and became one of the evangelists of times. Women in that society were very low in rank but Jesus had elevated their status by giving them an important mission of bringing the good news to others. The Samaritans in her village went out of the town and came to him” (v. 30). People began to believe in him because of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me everything I have done” (v.39). Many of the Samaritans had seen Jesus and began to believe in Jesus

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