John 4:1-30
Jesus Goes to Galilee
4Therefore when aJesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and bbaptizing more disciples than John 2(although aJesus Himself was not baptizing, but His bdisciples were), 3He left aJudea and went away bagain into Galilee. 4And He had to pass through aSamaria. 5So He *came to a city of aSamaria called Sychar, near bthe field that cJacob gave to his son Joseph; 6and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, being wearied from His journey, was sitting thus by the well. It was about 1the sixth hour.
Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
7A woman of Samaria *came to draw water. Jesus *said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 8For His adisciples had gone away into bthe city to buy food. 9Therefore the aSamaritan woman *said to Him, “How do You, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?” (For bJews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 10Jesus 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 aliving water.” 11She *said to Him, “1Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then do You get that aliving water? 12“Are You greater than our father Jacob, who agave us this well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle?” 13Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; 14but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him awill never thirst—ever; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to beternal life.”
15The woman *said to Him, “1Sir, agive me this water, so I will not be thirsty nor come back here to draw.” 16He *said to her, “Go, call your husband and come back here.” 17The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus *said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I have no husband’; 18for you had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly.” 19The woman *said to Him, “1Sir, I see that You are aa prophet. 20“aOur fathers worshiped on bthis mountain, and you people say that cin Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.” 21Jesus *said to her, “Woman, believe Me, aan hour is coming when bneither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22“aYou worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for bsalvation is from the Jews. 23“But aan hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father bin spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. 24“God is 1spirit, and those who worship Him must worship ain spirit and truth.” 25The woman *said to Him, “I know that aMessiah is coming (bHe who is called 1Christ); when He comes, He will declare all things to us.” 26Jesus *said to her, “aI who speak to you am He.”
27And at this point His adisciples came, and they were marveling that He was speaking with a woman, yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You speaking with her?” 28So the woman left her water jar, and went into the city and *said to the men, 29“Come, see a man awho told me all the things that I have done; bis this not the 1Christ?” 30They went out of the city, and were coming to Him.