John 4:3-32

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.

²¹Jesus says to her, Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when ye shall neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem worship the Father.

²²Ye worship ye know not what; we worship what we know, for salvation is of the Jews.

²³But the hour is coming and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for also the Father seeks such as his worshippers.

²⁴God is a spirit; and they who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth.

²⁵The woman says to him, I know that Messias is coming, who is called Christ; when he comes he will tell us all things.

²⁶Jesus says to her, I who speak to thee am he.

²⁷And upon this came his disciples, and wondered that he spoke with a woman; yet no one said, What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her?

²⁸The woman then left her waterpot and went away into the city, and says to the men,

²⁹Come, see a man who told me all things I had ever done: is not he the Christ?

³⁰They went out of the city and came to him.

³¹But meanwhile the disciples asked him saying, Rabbi, eat.

³²But he said to them, I have food to eat which ye do not know.