John 4:7–42

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.”

Christ Witnesses to the Disciples

²⁷And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You talking with her?”

²⁸The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, ²⁹“Come, see a Man ^xwho told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” ³⁰Then they went out of the city and came to Him.

³¹In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”

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

³³Therefore the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?”

³⁴Jesus said to them, ^y“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to ^zfinish His work. ³⁵Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes ^athe harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, ^bfor they are already white for harvest! ^36cAnd he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that ^dboth he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. ³⁷For in this the saying is true: ^e‘One sows and another reaps.’ ³⁸I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; ^fothers have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”

Christ Witnesses to the Samaritans

³⁹And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Him ^gbecause of the word of the woman who testified, “He told me all that I ever did.” ⁴⁰So when the Samaritans had come to Him, they urged Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. ⁴¹And many more believed because of His own ^hword.

⁴²Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for ⁱwe ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed ¹the Christ, the Savior of the world.”