John 4:1-26

New American Standard Bible

Jesus Goes to Galilee

4 So then, when ^(A)the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that ^[a]He was making and ^(B)baptizing more disciples than John ²(although ^(C)Jesus Himself was not baptizing; rather, His ^(D)disciples were), ³He left ^(E)Judea and went away ^(F)again to Galilee. ⁴And He had to pass through ^(G)Samaria. ⁵So He *came to a city of ^(H)Samaria called Sychar, near ^(I)the parcel of land that ^(J)Jacob gave to his son Joseph; ⁶and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, tired from His journey, was just sitting by the well. It was about ^[b]the sixth hour.

The Woman of Samaria

⁷A woman of Samaria *came to draw water. Jesus *said to her, “Give Me a drink.” ⁸For His ^(K)disciples had gone away to ^(L)the city to buy food. ⁹So the ^(M)Samaritan woman *said to Him, “How is it that You, though You are a Jew, are asking me for a drink, though I am a Samaritan woman?” (For ^(N)Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) ¹⁰Jesus replied to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you ^(O)living water.” ¹¹She *said to Him, “^[c]Sir, You have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do You get this ^(P)living water? ¹²You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who ^(Q)gave us the 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 be thirsty again; ¹⁴but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him ^(R)shall never be thirsty; but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to ^(S)eternal life.”

¹⁵The woman *said to Him, “^[d]Sir, ^(T)give me this water so that I will not be thirsty, nor come all the way here to draw water.” ¹⁶He *said to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.” ¹⁷The woman answered and said to Him, “I have no husband.” Jesus *said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I have no husband’; ¹⁸for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this which you have said is true.” ¹⁹The woman *said to Him, “^[e]Sir, I perceive that You are ^(U)a prophet. ²⁰^(V)Our fathers worshiped on ^(W)this mountain, and yet you Jews say that ^(X)in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship.” ²¹Jesus *said to her, “Believe Me, woman, that ^[f]^(Y)a time is coming when you will worship the Father ^(Z)neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. ²²^(AA)You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, because ^(AB)salvation is from the Jews. ²³But ^[g]^(AC)a time is coming, and ^[h]even now has arrived, when the true worshipers will worship the Father ^(AD)in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be ^[i]His worshipers. ²⁴God is ^[j]spirit, and those who worship Him must worship ^(AE)in spirit and truth.” ²⁵The woman *said to Him, “I know that ^(AF)Messiah is coming (^(AG)He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us.” ²⁶Jesus *said to her, “^(AH)I am He, the One speaking to you.”