John 4:8-19

⁸(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

⁹So the Samaritan woman says to Him, “How can you, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?” (for Jews do not associate with Samaritans).

¹⁰Jesus answered and said to her: “If you knew the gift of God, and who is the one saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”

¹¹The woman says to Him: “Sir, you don't even have a bucket, and the well is deep; so where do you get this living water?

¹²You aren't greater than our father Jacob, are you? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”

¹³Jesus answered and said to her: “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,

¹⁴but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never ever thirst; rather, the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water, welling up into eternal life.”

¹⁵The woman says to Him, “Sir, give me this water! so that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”

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

¹⁷The woman answered and said, “I don't have a husband.” Jesus says to her: “You stated correctly that you do not have a husband,

¹⁸because you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is no husband of yours. You spoke the truth there!”

¹⁹The woman says to Him: “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.