John 4:9-18

⁹“You're a Jew, and I'm a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” the woman replied, for Jews don't associate with Samaritans.

¹⁰Jesus answered her, “If you only recognized God's gift, and who is asking you, ‘Please could you give me a drink?’ you would have asked him and he would have given you the water of life.”

¹¹“Sir, you don't have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get the water of life from?” she replied.

¹²“Our father Jacob gave us the well. He drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock. Are you greater than he?”

¹³Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks water from this well will become thirsty again.

¹⁴But those who drink the water I give won't ever be thirsty again. The water I give becomes a bubbling spring of water inside them, bringing them eternal life.”

¹⁵“Sir,” replied the woman, “Please give me this water so I won't be thirsty, and I won't have to come here to fetch water!”

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

¹⁷“I don't have a husband,” the woman answered. “You're right in saying you don't have a husband,” Jesus told her.

¹⁸“You've had five husbands, and the one you're living with now is not your husband. So what you say is true!”