John 4:3–26

³He left Judea and departed again to Galilee. ⁴But He needed to go through Samaria.

⁵So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that ^bJacob ^cgave to his son Joseph. ⁶Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

⁷A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” ⁸For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

⁹Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For ^dJews have no dealings with ^eSamaritans.

¹⁰Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the ^fgift 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 ^gliving water.”

¹¹The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? ¹²Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”

¹³Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, ¹⁴but ^hwhoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him ⁱwill become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

^15jThe woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”

¹⁶Jesus 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 well said, ‘I have no husband,’ ¹⁸for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.”

¹⁹The woman said to Him, “Sir, ^kI perceive that You are a prophet. ²⁰Our fathers worshiped on ^lthis mountain, and you Jews say that in ^mJerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”

²¹Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming ⁿwhen you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. ²²You worship ^owhat you do not know; we know what we worship, for ^psalvation is of the Jews. ²³But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will ^qworship the Father in ^rspirit ^sand truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. ^24tGod is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

²⁵The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah ^uis coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, ^vHe will tell us all things.”

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