John 4:7–42

⁷There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. ⁸(For his disciples were gone away unto ^mthe city to buy meat.) ⁹Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for ⁿthe Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. ¹⁰Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee ^oliving water. ¹¹The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water? ¹²Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? ¹³Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: ¹⁴But ^pwhosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into ^ppeverlasting life. ¹⁵The woman saith unto him, ^qSir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. ¹⁶Jesus saith unto her, Go, ^rcall thy husband, and come hither. ¹⁷The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: ¹⁸For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. ¹⁹The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art ^sa prophet. ²⁰Our fathers worshipped in ^tthis mountain; and ye say, that in ^uJerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. ²¹Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, ^wthe hour cometh, ^xwhen ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship ^ythe Father. ²²Ye worship ^zye know not what: we know what we worship: ^afor salvation is of the Jews. ²³But ^wthe hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in ^bspirit and in ^ctruth: for the Father ^dseeketh such to worship him. ^24eGod is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in ^bspirit and in ^ctruth. ²⁵The woman saith unto him, I know that ^fMessias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, ^ghe will ^htell us all things. ²⁶Jesus saith unto her, ⁱI that speak unto thee am he.

²⁷And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her? ²⁸The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men, ²⁹Come, see a man, ^kwhich told me all things that ever I did: ^lis not this the Christ? ³⁰Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.

³¹In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, ^mMaster, ⁿeat. ³²But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. ³³Therefore said the disciples one to another, ^oHath any man brought him ought to eat? ³⁴Jesus saith unto them, ^pMy meat is ^qto do the will of him that sent me, and ^rto finish his work. ³⁵Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, ^sLift up your eyes, and look on ^tthe fields; ^ufor they are white already to harvest. ³⁶And he that reapeth receiveth ^xwages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal: that both ^yhe that soweth and ^zhe that reapeth may rejoice together. ³⁷And herein is that saying true, ^aOne soweth, and another reapeth. ³⁸I sent ^zyou to reap ^bthat whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ^cye are entered into their labours. ³⁹And many of the Samaritans of ^dthat city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, ^eHe told me all that ever I did. ⁴⁰So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would ^ftarry with them: and he ^fabode there two days. ⁴¹And many more believed because of his own word; ⁴²And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, ^gthe Saviour of the world.