John 4:13–26

¹³Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again. ¹⁴But whoever drinks of this water which I will give to him will never be thirsty for eternity, but the water which I will give to him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.” ¹⁵The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or come here to draw water!”^{* 16}He said to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.” ¹⁷The woman answered and said to him, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have said rightly, ‘I do not have a husband,’ ¹⁸for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you have now is not your husband; this you have said truthfully!”

¹⁹The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet. ²⁰Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people^* say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary to worship.” ²¹Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, that an hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. ²²You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. ²³But an hour is coming—and now is here^*—when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for indeed the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers. ²⁴God is spirit, and the ones who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” ²⁵The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (the one called Christ); “whenever that one comes, he will proclaim all things to us.” ²⁶Jesus said to her, “I, the one speaking to you, am he.^*