John 4:11–20

11 She * said to Him, “1Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; where then do You get that aliving water?

12 “You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who agave us the well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle?”

13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again;

14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him ashall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to beternal life.”

15 The woman * said to Him, “1Sir, agive me this water, so I will not be thirsty nor come all the way here to draw.”

16 He * said to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.”

17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus * said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I have no husband’;

18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly.”

19 The woman * said to Him, “1Sir, I perceive that You are aa prophet.

20 “aOur fathers worshiped in bthis mountain, and you people say that cin Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.”