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

⁴ And as He must pass through the country of Samaria, He came to a Samaritan city called Sichar, ⁵ near the piece of ground which Jacob gave to his son Joseph. ⁶ And Jacob's well was there. Now Jesus was tired with his journey, and sat down at the well: and it was about the sixth hour of the day,

⁷ when a woman of Samaria coming to draw water, Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. ⁸ (For his disciples were gone away to the city to buy food.)

⁹ But the Samaritan saith unto Him, How is it that thou who art a Jew askest drink of me, who am a Samaritan? for the Jews have no friendly intercourse with the Samaritans.

¹⁰ Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith unto thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldst have asked of Him, and He would have given thee living water.

¹¹ The woman saith unto Him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then hast thou the living water? ¹² Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his children, and his cattle?

¹³ Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water, will thirst again; ¹⁴ but he that drinketh of the water which I shall give him, shall never thirst: but the water, which I shall give him, will be in him a fountain of water springing up unto eternal life.

¹⁵ The woman saith unto Him, Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.

¹⁶ Jesus saith unto her, Go call thine husband, and come hither.

¹⁷ The woman answered, I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her, Thou hast said right, I have no husband: ¹⁸ for thou hast had five husbands; and he, whom thou now hast, is not thy husband: this thou hast said true.

¹⁹ The woman saith unto Him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. ²⁰ Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

²¹ Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the time is coming, when ye shall worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. ²² Ye worship ye know not what; but we worship what we know: for salvation is from the Jews. ²³ But the time is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for the Father requireth such worshippers of Him. ²⁴ God is a spirit, and they that worship Him, must worship in spirit and truth.

²⁵ Then saith the woman unto Him, I know that the Messiah, that is to say the Christ, is coming; and when He comes, He will tell us all things.

²⁶ Jesus saith unto her, I, who am talking to thee, am He.