John 4:1-20

¹When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus makes and baptises more disciples than John

²(however, Jesus himself did not baptise, but his disciples),

³he left Judaea and went away again unto Galilee.

⁴And he must needs pass through Samaria.

⁵He comes therefore to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near to the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

⁶Now a fountain of Jacob's was there; Jesus therefore, being wearied with the way he had come, sat just as he was at the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.

⁷A woman comes out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus says to her, Give me to drink

⁸(for his disciples had gone away into the city that they might buy provisions).

⁹The Samaritan woman therefore says to him, How dost thou, being a Jew, ask to drink of me who am a Samaritan woman? for Jews have no intercourse with Samaritans.

¹⁰Jesus answered and said to her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that says to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

¹¹The woman says to him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then hast thou the living water?

¹²Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?

¹³Jesus answered and said to her, Every one who drinks of this water shall thirst again;

¹⁴but whosoever drinks of the water which I shall give him shall never thirst for ever, but the water which I shall give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into eternal life.

¹⁵The woman says to him, Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst nor come here to draw.

¹⁶Jesus says to her, Go, call thy husband, and come here.

¹⁷The woman answered and said, I have not a husband. Jesus says to her, Thou hast well said, I have not a husband;

¹⁸for thou hast had five husbands, and he whom now thou hast is not thy husband: this thou hast spoken truly.

¹⁹The woman says to him, Sir, I see that thou art a prophet.

²⁰Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship.