John 4:1-26 - The Samaritan Woman At Jacob's Well

¹ As soon as the Lord had knowledge, how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptised more disciples than John - ² though that Jesus himself baptised not, but his disciples - ³ he left Jewry, and departed again into Galilee. ⁴ And it was so that he must needs go through Samaria. ⁵ Then came he to a city of Samaria called Sychar, beside the possession that Jacob gave to his son Joseph, ⁶ and there was Jacob's well. Jesus, then wearied in his journey, sat thus on the well. And it was about the sixth hour:

⁷ And there came a woman of Samaria to draw water. And Jesus said unto her, "Give me drink" - ⁸ for his disciples were gone away unto the town to buy meat.

⁹ Then the woman of Samaria said unto him, "How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a Samaritan?" For the Jews meddle not with the Samaritans.

¹⁰ Jesus answered and said unto her, "If thou knowest the gift of God, and who it is, that sayeth to thee, 'Give me drink': thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee water of life."

¹¹ The woman said unto him, "Sir, thou hast no thing to draw it withal, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that water of life? ¹² Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and he himself drank thereof and his children and his cattle?"

¹³ Jesus answered and said unto her, "Whosoever drinketh of this water, shall thirst again. ¹⁴ But whosoever shall drink of the water that I shall give him, shall never be more a thirst: But the water that I shall give him, shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."

¹⁵ The woman said unto him, "Sir, give me of that water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw."

¹⁶ Jesus said unto her, "Go and call thy husband, and come hither."

¹⁷ The woman answered, and said to him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "Thou hast well said, 'I have no husband.' ¹⁸ For thou hast had five husbands, and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband. That saidst thou truly."

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

²¹ Jesus said unto her, "Woman, believe me; The hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the father. ²² Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship. For salvation cometh of the Jews. ²³ But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the father in spirit, and in truth. For verily, such the father requireth to worship him. ²⁴ God is a spirit, and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit, and truth."

²⁵ The woman said unto him, "I know well Messiah shall come, which is called Christ. When he is once come, he will tell us all things."

²⁶ Jesus said unto her, "I that speak unto thee, am he."