John 4:11-42

¹¹The woman saith to him, Sire, thou hast not wherein to draw, and the pit is deep; whereof then hast thou quick water?

¹²Whether thou art greater than our father Jacob, that gave to us the pit? and he drank thereof, and his sons, and his beasts.

¹³Jesus answered, and said to her, Each man that drinketh of this water, shall thirst again;

¹⁴but he that drinketh of the water that I shall give him, shall not thirst without end; but the water that I shall give him, shall be made in him a well of water, springing up into everlasting life.

¹⁵The woman saith to him, Sire, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.

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

¹⁷The woman answered, and said, I have none husband or I have not an husband. Jesus saith to her, Thou saidest well, That I have none husband or I have not an husband;

¹⁸for thou hast had five husbands, and he that thou hast now, is not thine husband. This thing thou saidest soothly.

¹⁹The woman saith to him, Lord, I see, that thou art a prophet.

²⁰Our fathers worshipped in this hill, and ye say, that at Jerusalem is a place, where it behooveth to worship.

²¹Jesus saith to her, Woman, believe thou to me, for the hour shall come, when neither in this hill, neither in Jerusalem, ye shall worship the Father.

²²Ye worship that that ye know not; we worship that that we know; for health is of the Jews.

²³But the time is come, and now it is, when true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for also the Father seeketh such, that worship him.

²⁴God is a Spirit, and it behooveth them that worship him, to worship in spirit and truth.

²⁵The woman saith to him, I know that Messiah is come, that is said Christ; therefore when he cometh, he shall tell us all things.

²⁶Jesus saith to her, I am he or I am, that speaketh with thee.

²⁷And anon his disciples came, and wondered, that he spake with the woman; nevertheless no man said to him, What seekest thou, or, What speakest thou with her?

²⁸Therefore the woman left her water pot, and went into the city, and said to the men,

²⁹Come ye, and see a man, that said to me all things that I have done; whether he be Christ?

³⁰And they went out of the city, and came to him.

³¹In the meanwhile his disciples prayed him, and said, Master or Rabbi, eat.

³²But he said to them, I have meat to eat, that ye know not.

³³Therefore the disciples said together, Whether any man hath brought him meat to eat?

³⁴Jesus saith to them, My meat is that I do the will of him that sent me, and that I perform the work of him.

³⁵Whether ye say not, that yet four months be, and ripe corn cometh? Lo! I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see ye the fields, for now they be white to reap.

³⁶And he that reapeth taketh hire, and gathereth fruit into everlasting life; that both he that soweth, and he that reapeth, have joy together.

³⁷In this thing is the word true, For one is that soweth, and another that reapeth.

³⁸I sent you to reap, that that ye have not travailed; other men have travailed, and ye have entered into their travails.

³⁹And of that city many of the Samaritans believed in him, for the word of the woman, that bare witnessing, That he said to me all things that I have done.

⁴⁰Therefore when Samaritans came to him, they prayed him to dwell there; and he dwelt there two days.

⁴¹And many more believed for his word,

⁴²and said to the woman, That now not for thy speech we believe; for we have heard, and we know, that this is verily the Saviour of the world.