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

⁴ Now he had to pass through Samaria; ⁵ so he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. ⁶ Jacob's Spring was there. So Jesus, tired out with his journey, was sitting thus by the spring.

⁷ It was about noon, and a woman of Samaria came to draw water. ⁸ Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink" (for his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food.)

⁹ "How is it," answered the Samaritan woman, "that you who are a Jew ask a drink from me, a woman, and a Samaritan?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

¹⁰ "If you had known the free gift of God," Jesus answered, "and who it is that says to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water."

¹¹ "Sir," said the woman, "you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; whence have you that living water? ¹² Surely you are not greater than our Father Jacob, who gave us the well, and used to drink from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle, too?"

¹³ "All who drink of this water," Jesus answered, "will thirst again; ¹⁴ but whoever once drinks of the water that I will give him, shall never thirst any more, but the water that I will give him shall become a living spring of water within him, welling up into eternal life."

¹⁵ "Sir!" exclaimed the woman, "give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty, nor come all this way to draw water."

¹⁶ Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and then come here."

¹⁷ "I have no husband," answered the woman. "You are right in saying 'I have no husband,'" Jesus said to her, ¹⁸ "for you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband; in this you have spoken truly."

¹⁹ "I see, Sir, that you are a prophet," replied the woman. ²⁰ "Our forefathers worshiped in this mountain, yet you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship."

²¹ "Woman, believe me," said Jesus, "that the hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. ²² You are worshiping something you do not know. we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews. ²³ But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father is seeking such as his worshipers. ²⁴ God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."

²⁵ "I know," said the woman, "that Messiah is coming, who is called the Christ; when he has come he will tell us everything."

²⁶ Jesus said to her, "I who am now talking to you, am he."