John 4:8-35

⁸For his disciples were gone away into the citie, to buy meate.

⁹Then sayde the woman of Samaria vnto him, Howe is it, that thou being a Iewe, askest drinke of me, which am a woman of Samaria? For the Iewes meddle not with the Samaritans.

¹⁰Iesus answered and saide vnto her, If thou knewest that gift of God, and who it is that saieth to thee, Giue mee drinke, thou wouldest haue asked of him, and hee woulde haue giuen thee, water of life.

¹¹The woman saide vnto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to drawe with, and the well is deepe: from whence then hast thou that water of life?

¹²Art thou greater then our father Iacob, which gaue vs the well, and hee himselfe dranke thereof, and his sonnes, and his cattell?

¹³Iesus answered, and said vnto her, Whosoeuer drinketh of this water, shall thirst againe:

¹⁴But whosoeuer drinketh of the water that I shall giue him, shall neuer be more a thirst: but the water that I shall giue him, shalbe in him a well of water, springing vp into euerlasting life.

¹⁵The woman said vnto him, Syr, giue me of that water, that I may not thirst, neither come hither to drawe.

¹⁶Iesus said vnto her, Go, call thine husband, and come hither.

¹⁷The woman answered, and saide, I haue no husband. Iesus said vnto her, Thou hast well said, I haue no husband.

¹⁸For thou hast had fiue husbands, and he whom thou nowe hast, is not thine husband: that saidest thou truely.

¹⁹The woman saide vnto him, Sir, I see that thou art a Prophet.

²⁰Our fathers worshipped in this mountaine, and ye say, that in Ierusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

²¹Iesus saide vnto her, Woman, beleeue me, the houre commeth, when ye shall neither in this mountaine, nor at Hierusalem worship ye Father.

²²Ye worship that which ye knowe not: we worship that which we knowe: for saluation is of the Iewes.

²³But the houre commeth, and nowe is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit, and trueth: for the Father requireth euen such to worship him.

²⁴God is a Spirite, and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit and trueth.

²⁵The woman said vnto him, I knowe well that Messias shall come which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell vs all things.

²⁶Iesus said vnto her, I am he, that speake vnto thee.

²⁷And vpon that, came his disciples, and marueiled that he talked with a woman: yet no man said vnto him, What askest thou? or why talkest thou with her?

²⁸The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the citie, and said to the men,

²⁹Come, see a man which hath tolde me all things that euer I did: is not he that Christ?

³⁰Then they went out of the citie, and came vnto him.

³¹In the meane while, the disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eate.

³²But he said vnto them, I haue meate to eate that ye know not of.

³³Then said ye disciples betweene themselues, Hath any man brought him meate?

³⁴Iesus saide vnto them, My meate is that I may doe the will of him that sent me, and finish his worke.

³⁵Say not ye, There are yet foure moneths, and then commeth haruest? Beholde, I say vnto you, Lift vp your eyes, and looke on the regions: for they are white alreadie vnto haruest.