John 4:5-30

5Now he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

6Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.

7A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me some water to drink.”

8(For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies.)

9So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you – a Jew – ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water to drink?” (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)

10Jesus answered her, “If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you, ‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

11“Sir,” the woman said to him, “you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water?

12Surely you’re not greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.”

13Jesus replied, “Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty again.

14But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.”

15The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”

16He said to her, “Go call your husband and come back here.”

17The woman replied, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “Right you are when you said, ‘I have no husband,’

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

19The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet.

20Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you people say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.”

21Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

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

23But a time is coming – and now is here – when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.

24God is spirit, and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

25The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (the one called Christ); “whenever he comes, he will tell us everything.”

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

27Now at that very moment his disciples came back. They were shocked because he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said, “What do you want?” or “Why are you speaking with her?”

28Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people,

29“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can’t be the Messiah, can he?”

30So they left the town and began coming to him.