⁴ And it was necessary for him to pass through Samaria. ⁵ Then comes he to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the place which Jacob gave to Joseph his son. ⁶ And Jacob's spring was there. Then Jesus, wearied with the journey, sat thus by the spring: it was about the sixth hour.

⁷ A woman of Samaria comes to draw water: Jesus says to her, Give me to drink. ⁸ (For his disciples were gone into the city that they might buy food.)

⁹ Then says the Samaritan woman to him, How thou, being a Jew, askest of me to drink, being a Samaritan woman? for the Jews have no intercourse with the Samaritans.

¹⁰ And Jesus answered and said to her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who he is saying to thee, Give me to drink: thou hadst asked him, and he had given thee living water.

¹¹ The woman says to him, Lord, thou hest no vessel for drawing, and the well is deep; whence then hast thou the living water? ¹² Thou art not greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and he himself drank of it, and his sons, and his young animals.

¹³ Jesus answered and said to her, All drinking of this water shall thirst again: ¹⁴ But whoever should drink of the water which I shall give him, shall never thirst; but the water which I shall give him shall be in him a spring of water springing up to eternal life.

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

¹⁶ Jesus says to her, Retire, call thy husband, and come here.

¹⁷ The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus says to her, Thou sayest well, That I have no husband: ¹⁸ For thou hadst five husbands; and now he whom thou hast is not thy husband: this thou saidst true.

¹⁹ The woman says to him, Lord, I see that thou art a prophet. ²⁰ Our fathers worshipped in this mount; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where they must worship.

²¹ Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, that the hour comes, when neither in this mount, neither in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father. ²² Ye worship what ye 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 also the Father seeks such worshipping him. ²⁴ God a Spirit: and they worshipping him must worship in spirit and truth.

²⁵ The woman says to him, I know that Messias comes, called Christ: when he should come, he will announce all things to us.

²⁶ Jesus says to her, I am he speaking to thee.