John 4:8-25

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.

²⁰Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, while you (pl) say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.”

²¹Jesus says to her: “Woman, believe me, a time is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.

²²You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we Jews worship what we do know, because the salvation is from the Jews.

²³But the time is coming, in fact now is, when the genuine worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Really, because the Father is looking for such people to worship Him.

²⁴God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

²⁵The woman says to Him: “I know that Messiah is coming (who is called Christ). When He comes He will explain everything to us.”