John 4:4-20

⁴But it was necessary for him to go through Samaria.

⁵So he came to a town of Samaria, called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

⁶The well of Jacob was there. Jesus was tired from his journey and sat by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

⁷A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me some water to drink.”

⁸For his disciples had gone away into the town to buy food.

⁹Then the Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, are asking me, being a Samaritan woman, for something to drink?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

¹⁰Jesus answered and said to her, “If you had known the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

¹¹The woman said to him, “Sir, you do not have a bucket and the well is deep. Where then do you have the living water?

¹²You are not greater, are you, than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his cattle?”

¹³Jesus replied and said to her, “Everyone who drinks from this water will be thirsty again,

¹⁴but whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. Instead, the water that I will give him will become a fountain of water in him, springing up to eternal life.”

¹⁵The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I may not become thirsty and not have to come here to draw water.”

¹⁶Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come back here.”

¹⁷The woman answered and said to him, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus replied, “You are right in saying, 'I have no husband,'

¹⁸for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”

¹⁹The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet.

²⁰Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that Jerusalem is the place where people have to worship.”