13“All who drink of this water,” replied Jesus, “will be thirsty again;
14but whoever once drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst any more; but the water that I will give him will become a spring welling up within him — a source of eternal life.”
15“Give me this water, Sir,” said the woman, “so that I may not be thirsty, nor have to come all the way here to draw water.”
16“Go and call your husband,” said Jesus, “and then come back.”
17“I have no husband,” answered the woman. “You are right in saying ‘I have no husband,’” replied Jesus,
18“For you have had five husbands, and the man with whom you are now living is not your husband; in saying that, you have spoken the truth.”
19“I see, Sir, that you are a prophet!” exclaimed the woman.
20“It was on this mountain that our ancestors worshipped; and yet you Jews say that the proper place for worship is in Jerusalem.”
21“Believe me,” replied Jesus, “a time is coming when it will be neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem that you will worship the Father.
22You Samaritans do not know what you worship; we know what we worship, for salvation comes from the Jews.
23But a time is coming, indeed it is already here, when the true worshippers will worship the Father spiritually and truly; for such are the worshippers that the Father desires.
24God is Spirit; and those who worship him must worship spiritually and truly.”
25“I know,” answered the woman, “that the Messiah, who is called the Christ, is coming; when once he has come, he will tell us everything.”
26“I am he,” Jesus said to her, “I who am speaking to you.”
27At this moment his disciples came up, and were surprised to find him talking with a woman; but none of them asked ‘What do you want?’ or ‘Why are you talking with her?’
28So the woman, leaving her pitcher, went back to the town, and said to the people,
29“Come and see someone who has told me everything that I have done. Can he be the Christ?”
30And the people left the town and went to see Jesus.
31Meanwhile the disciples kept saying to him, “Take something to eat, Rabbi.”
32“I have food to eat,” he answered, “of which you know nothing.”
33“Can anyone have brought him anything to eat?” the disciples said to one another.
34“My food,” replied Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me, and to complete his work.
35Don't you say that it still wants four months to harvest? Why, look up, and see how white the fields are for harvest!
36Already the reaper is receiving wages and gathering in sheaves for eternal life, so that sower and reaper rejoice together.
John 4
John 4:13-36