John 4:1-19

¹Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John

²(although Jesus Himself wasn’t baptizing, but His disciples were),

³He left Judea, and went back towards Galilee.

⁴He had to go through Samaria.

⁵He came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph,

⁶and Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

⁷A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Please give me a drink.”

⁸His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.

⁹The Samaritan woman therefore asked Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink, since I’m a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.)

¹⁰Jesus answered her, “If you knew God’s gift, and who it is who says to you, ‘Please give me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

¹¹The woman said, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where could you get this living water from?

¹²Are You greater than our forefather Jacob, who gave us this well and who used to drink from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?”

¹³Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will get thirsty again,

¹⁴but whoever drinks the water that I will give will never, ever get thirsty. The water that I will give will become in that person a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

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

¹⁶Jesus told her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”

¹⁷The woman answered, “I have no husband.” Jesus told her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband,’

¹⁸for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now isn’t your husband. What you have said is quite true.”

¹⁹The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet.