John 4:5-30

5so he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property that Jacob had given his son Joseph.

6Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, worn out from his journey, sat down at the well. It was about noon.

7A woman of Samaria came to draw water. “Give me a drink,” Jesus said to her,

8because his disciples had gone into town to buy food.

9“How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” she asked him. For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.

10Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would ask him, and he would give you living water.”

11“Sir,” said the woman, “you don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do you get this ‘living water’?

12You aren’t greater than our father Jacob, are you? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.”

13Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again.

14But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again. In fact, the water I will give him will become a well of water springing up in him for eternal life.”

15“Sir,” the woman said to him, “give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and come here to draw water.”

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

17“I don’t have a husband,” she answered. “You have correctly said, ‘I don’t have a husband,’” Jesus said.

18“For you’ve had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”

19“Sir,” the woman replied, “I see that you are a prophet.

20Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.”

21Jesus told her, “Believe me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

22You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We worship what we do know, because salvation is from the Jews.

23But an hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and in truth. Yes, the Father wants such people to worship him.

24God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in Spirit and in truth.”

25The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”

26Jesus told her, “I, the one speaking to you, am he.”

27Just then his disciples arrived, and they were amazed that he was talking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”

28Then the woman left her water jar, went into town, and told the people,

29“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?”

30They left the town and made their way to him.