John 3:16 says that God ‘loved the world’ and ‘whoever believes in him will … have eternal life.’ Both phrases imply that the gift of God is not exclusive. In chapter 4, John demonstrates this as he tells of Jesus’s encounter with this Samaritan Woman who is the kind of person you would least expect to become a follower of Jesus.

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