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

⁴ And He had to go through Samaria. ⁵ So He came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the field which Jacob gave to his son Joseph; ⁶ and Jacob's spring was there. So Jesus, tired from His journey, was sitting by the spring just as He was. It was about noon.

⁷ A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." ⁸ For His disciples had gone into the town to buy some food.

⁹ So the Samaritan woman said to Him, "How is it that a Jew like you asks a Samaritan woman like me for a drink?" For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.

¹⁰ Jesus answered her, "If you just knew what God has to give and who it is that said to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have been the one to ask Him, and He would have given you living water."

¹¹ She said to Him, "You have nothing to draw with, sir, and the well is deep. Where do you get your living water? ¹² You are not greater than our forefather Jacob, are you, who gave us this well, and drank from it himself, with all his sons and flocks?"

¹³ Jesus answered her, "Anyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again; ¹⁴ but whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never, no never, be thirsty again, for the water that I will give him will become a spring of water that keeps on bubbling up within him for eternal life."

¹⁵ The woman said to Him, "Give me this water at once, sir, so I may never get thirsty again, nor have to come so far to draw water."

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

¹⁷ The woman answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You were right in saying, 'I have no husband,' ¹⁸ for you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true."

¹⁹ The woman said to Him, "I see that you are a prophet. ²⁰ Our forefathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship Him."

²¹ Jesus said to her, "Believe me, woman, the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. ²² You Samaritans do not know what you are worshiping; we Jews do know what we are worshiping; for salvation comes from the Jews. ²³ But a time is coming -- indeed, it is already here -- when the real worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and reality, for the Father is looking for just such worshipers. ²⁴ God is a spiritual Being, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and reality."

²⁵ The woman said to Him, "I know that the Messiah is coming, the One who is called the Christ. When He comes, He will tell us everything."

²⁶ Jesus said to her, "I, the very one who is talking to you, am He!"