John 4:10-28

¹⁰Jesus answered, and said to her: If thou didst know the gift of God, and who he is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou perhaps wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

¹¹The woman saith to him: Sir, thou hast nothing wherein to draw, and the well is deep; from whence then hast thou living water?

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

¹³Jesus answered, and said to her: Whosoever drinketh of this water, shall thirst again; but he that shall drink of the water that I will give him, shall not thirst for ever:

¹⁴But the water that I will give him, shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting.

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

¹⁶Jesus saith to her: Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

¹⁷The woman answered, and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: Thou hast said well, I have no husband:

¹⁸For thou hast had five husbands: and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband. This thou hast said truly.

¹⁹The woman saith to him: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

²⁰Our fathers adored on this mountain, and you say, that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore.

²¹Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe me, that the hour cometh, when you shall neither on this mountain, not in Jerusalem, adore the Father.

²²You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know; for salvation is of the Jews.

²³But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeketh such to adore him.

²⁴God is a spirit; and they that adore him, must adore him in spirit and in truth.

²⁵The woman saith to him: I know that the Messias cometh (who is called Christ). Therefore, when he is come, he will tell us all things.

²⁶Jesus saith to her: I am he, who am speaking with thee.

²⁷And immediately his disciples came; and they wondered that he talked with the woman. Yet no man said: What seekest thou? or, why talkest thou with her?

²⁸The woman therefore left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men there: