John 4:4-26 - Conversation With A Samaritan Woman

⁴ And it was necessary that he should pass through Samaria. ⁵ He came, therefore, to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the lot which Jacob gave his son Joseph. ⁶ And Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being fatigued with travelling sat thus by the well; it was about the sixth hour [noon].

⁷ A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, Give me a drink; ⁸ for his disciples had gone away into the city to buy provisions.

⁹ Then the Samaritan woman said to him, How do you, being a Jew, ask a drink of me, who am a Samaritan? for the Jews do no business with the Samaritans.

¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that says to you, Give me a drink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.

¹¹ The woman said to him, Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; whence then have you the living water? ¹² Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and who drank of it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?

¹³ Jesus answered and said to her, Every one that drinks of this water will thirst again; ¹⁴ but whoever drinks of the water which I will give him shall never thirst; but the water which I will give him shall be in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.

¹⁵ The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, nor come here to draw.

¹⁶ He said to her, Go and call your husband, and come here.

¹⁷ The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, You have said well, I have no husband; ¹⁸ for you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband. In this you have spoken truly.

¹⁹ The woman said to him, Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. ²⁰ Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and you say that Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

²¹ Jesus said to her, Believe me, woman, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, you shall worship the Father. ²² You worship what you know not; we worship what we know; for salvation is of the Jews. ²³ But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father seeks such to worship him. ²⁴ God is a Spirit, and those that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.

²⁵ The woman said to him, I know that the Messiah is coming, called Christ; when he comes he will tell us all things.

²⁶ Jesus said to her, I that speak to you am [the Messiah].