John 4:13–26

¹³Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst.ⁱ Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water^j welling up to eternal life.”^k

¹⁵The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty^l and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

¹⁶He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”

¹⁷“I have no husband,” she replied.

Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. ¹⁸The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”

¹⁹“Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet.^{m 20}Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain,ⁿ but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”^o

²¹“Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming^p when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.^{q 22}You Samaritans worship what you do not know;^r we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.^{s 23}Yet a time is coming and has now come^t when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit^u and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. ²⁴God is spirit,^v and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”

²⁵The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ)^w “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”

²⁶Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”^x