John 4:6-22

⁶Now Jacob's fountain was there. Jesus, being tired after his journey, was resting by the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.

⁷A woman of Samaria came to get water, and Jesus said to her, Give me some water.

⁸For his disciples had gone to the town to get food.

⁹The woman of Samaria said to him, Why do you, a Jew, make a request for water to me, a woman of Samaria? She said this because Jews have nothing to do with the people of Samaria.

¹⁰In answer Jesus said, If you had knowledge of what God gives freely and who it is who says to you, Give me water, you would make your prayer to him, and he would give you living water.

¹¹The woman said to him, Sir, you have no vessel and the fountain is deep; from where will you get the living water?

¹²Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the fountain and took the water of it himself, with his children and his cattle?

¹³Jesus said to her, Everyone who takes this water will be in need of it again:

¹⁴But whoever takes the water I give him will never be in need of drink again; for the water I give him will become in him a fountain of eternal life.

¹⁵The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be in need again of drink and will not have to come all this way for it.

¹⁶Jesus said to her, Go, get your husband and come back here with him.

¹⁷In answer, the woman said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, You have said rightly, I have no husband:

¹⁸You have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband: that was truly said.

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

²⁰Our fathers gave worship on this mountain, but you Jews say that the right place for worship is in Jerusalem.

²¹Jesus said to her, Woman, take my word for this; the time is coming when you will not give worship to the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem.

²²You give worship, but without knowledge of what you are worshipping: we give worship to what we have knowledge of: for salvation comes from the Jews.