John 4:7-26

New American Standard Bible

The Woman of Samaria

⁷ A woman of Samaria *came to draw water. Jesus *said to her, “Give Me a drink.” ⁸ For His ^(A)disciples had gone away to ^(B)the city to buy food. ⁹ So the ^(C)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 ^(D)Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) ¹⁰ Jesus 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 ^(E)living water.” ¹¹ She *said to Him, “^[a]Sir, You have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do You get this ^(F)living water? ¹² You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who ^(G)gave us the well and drank of it himself, and his sons and his cattle?” ¹³ Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again; ¹⁴ but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him ^(H)shall never be thirsty; but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to ^(I)eternal life.”

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