John 4:4–26

⁴And He had to pass through ^aSamaria.

⁵So He came to a city of ^aSamaria called Sychar, near ^bthe parcel of ground that ^cJacob gave to his son Joseph;

⁶and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, being wearied from His journey, was sitting thus by the well. It was about ¹the sixth hour.

The Woman of Samaria

⁷There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”

⁸For His ^adisciples had gone away into ^bthe city to buy food.

⁹Therefore the ^aSamaritan woman said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?” (For ^bJews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

¹⁰Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you ^aliving water.”

¹¹She 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?”

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

¹⁴but 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.”

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

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

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

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

¹⁹The 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.”

²¹Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, ^aan hour is coming when ^bneither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

²²“^aYou worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for ^bsalvation is from the Jews.

²³“But ^aan hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father ^bin spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.

²⁴“God is ¹spirit, and those who worship Him must worship ^ain spirit and truth.”

²⁵The woman said to Him, “I know that ^aMessiah is coming (^bHe who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us.”

²⁶Jesus said to her, “^aI who speak to you am He.”