John 4:9-22

9The Samaritan woman asked Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?” (For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.)

10Jesus answered her, “If you knew [about] God’s gift [of eternal life], and who it is who says, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him [instead], and He would have given you living water (eternal life).”

11She said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with [no bucket and rope] and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water?

12Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and who used to drink from it himself, and his sons and his cattle also?”

13Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.

14But whoever drinks the water that I give him will never be thirsty again. But the water that I give him will become in him a spring of water [satisfying his thirst for God] welling up [continually flowing, bubbling within him] to eternal life.”

15The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not get thirsty nor [have to continually] come all the way here to draw.”

16At this, Jesus said, “Go, call your husband and come back.”

17The woman answered, “I do not have a husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I do not have a husband’;

18for you have had five husbands, and the man you are now living with is not your husband. You have said this truthfully.”

19The woman said to Him, “Sir, I see that You are a prophet.

20Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one ought to worship is in Jerusalem [at the temple].”

21Jesus replied, “Woman, believe Me, a time is coming [when God’s kingdom comes] when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

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