1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
2 (although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were),
3 He left Judea and went away again into Galilee.
4 And He had to pass through Samaria.
5 So He came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;
6 and Jacob's well was there. So Jesus, being wearied from His journey, was sitting thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, |Give Me a drink.|
8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
9 Therefore the Samaritan woman said to Him, |How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?| (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
10 Jesus answered and said to her, |If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.|
11 She said to Him, |Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; where then do You get that living water?
12 |You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle?|
13 Jesus answered and said to her, |Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again;
14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.|
15 The woman said to Him, |Sir, give me this water, so I will not be thirsty nor come all the way here to draw.|
16 He said to her, |Go, call your husband and come here.|
17 The woman answered and said, |I have no husband.| Jesus said to her, |You have correctly said, 'I have no husband';
18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly.|
19 The woman said to Him, |Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet.
20 |Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you [people] say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.|
21 Jesus said to her, |Woman, believe Me, an hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.
22 |You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
23 |But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers.
24 |God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.|
25 The woman said to Him, |I know that Messiah is coming (He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us.|
26 Jesus said to her, |I who speak to you am [He].|
27 At this point His disciples came, and they were amazed that He had been speaking with a woman, yet no one said, |What do You seek?| or, |Why do You speak with her?|
28 So the woman left her waterpot, and went into the city and said to the men,
29 |Come, see a man who told me all the things that I [have] done; this is not the Christ, is it?|
