John 4:4–26

⁴And he was of necessity to pass through Samaria.

⁵He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, which is called Sichar, near the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

⁶Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.

⁷There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus saith to her: Give me to drink.

⁸For his disciples were gone into the city to buy meats.

⁹Then that Samaritan woman saith to him: How dost thou, being a Jew; ask of me to drink, who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews do not communicate with the Samaritans.

¹⁰Jesus answered and said to her: If thou didst know the gift of God and who he is that saith to thee: Give me to drink; thou perhaps wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

¹¹The woman saith to him: Sir, thou hast nothing wherein to draw, and the well is deep. From whence then hast thou living water?

¹²Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank thereof, himself and his children and his cattle?

¹³Jesus answered and said to her: Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: but he that shall drink of the water that I will give him shall not thirst for ever.

¹⁴But the water that I will give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting.

¹⁵The woman said to him: Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.

¹⁶Jesus saith to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

¹⁷The woman answered and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast said well: I have no husband.

¹⁸For thou hast had five husbands: and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband. This, thou hast said truly.

¹⁹The woman saith to him: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

²⁰Our fathers adored on this mountain: and you say that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore.

²¹Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe me that the hour cometh, when you shall neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, adore the Father.

²²You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know. For salvation is of the Jews.

²³But the hour cometh and now is, when the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeketh such to adore him.

²⁴God is a spirit: and they that adore him must adore him in spirit and in truth.

²⁵The woman saith to him: I know that the Messias cometh (who is called Christ): therefore, when he is come, he will tell us all things.

²⁶Jesus saith to her: I am he, who am speaking with thee.