John 4:1-24 ▼

1 When therefore the LORD knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus makes and immerses more disciples than John,

2 (though indeed Jesus Himself was not immersing, but His disciples),

3 He left Judea and went away again to Galilee,

4 and it was necessary [for] Him to go through Samaria.

5 He comes, therefore, to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the place that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;

6 and there was there a well of Jacob. Jesus therefore having been weary from the journeying, was thus sitting on the well; it was as it were the sixth hour;

7 there comes a woman out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus says to her, “Give Me to drink”;

8 for His disciples were gone away into the city that they may buy food;

9 the Samaritan woman therefore says to Him, “How do You, being a Jew, ask drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealing with Samaritans.

10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you had known the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, Give Me to drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

11 The woman says to Him, “Lord, You do not even have a vessel to draw with, and the well is deep; from where, then, have You the living water?

12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and himself drank out of it, and his sons, and his livestock?”

13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who is drinking of this water will thirst again;

14 but whoever may drink of the water that I will give him, may not thirst—throughout the age; and the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water, springing up to continuous life.”

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

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

17 the woman answered and said, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus says to her, “Well did you say—I do not have a husband;

18 for you have had five husbands, and now, he whom you have is not your husband; you have said this correctly.”

19 The woman says to Him, “Lord, I perceive that You are a prophet;

20 our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and You say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is required to worship.”

21 Jesus says to her, “Woman, believe Me, that there comes an hour when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father;

22 you worship what you have not known; we worship what we have known, because salvation is of the Jews;

23 but there comes an hour, and it now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also seeks such to worship Him;

24 God [is] Spirit, and those worshiping Him should worship in spirit and truth.”