John 4:7–42

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.”

²⁷At this point His ^adisciples came, and they were amazed that He had been speaking with a woman, yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why do You speak with her?”

²⁸So the woman left her waterpot, and went into the city and said to the men,

²⁹“Come, see a man ^awho told me all the things that I have done; ^bthis is not ¹the Christ, is it?”

³⁰They went out of the city, and were coming to Him.

³¹Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, saying, “^aRabbi, eat.”

³²But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”

³³So the ^adisciples were saying to one another, “No one brought Him anything to eat, did he?”

³⁴Jesus said to them, “My food is to ^ado the will of Him who sent Me and to ^baccomplish His work.

³⁵“Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white ^afor harvest.

³⁶“Already he who reaps is receiving ^awages and is gathering ^bfruit for ^clife eternal; so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

³⁷“For in this case the saying is true, ‘^aOne sows and another reaps.’

³⁸“I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”

The Samaritans

³⁹From ^athat city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who testified, “^bHe told me all the things that I have done.”

⁴⁰So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they were asking Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.

⁴¹Many more believed because of His word;

⁴²and they were saying to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One is indeed ^athe Savior of the world.”