John 4:4-29

New King James Version

⁴ But He needed to go through Samaria.

⁵ So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that ^(A)Jacob ^(B)gave to his son Joseph. ⁶ Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

⁷ A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” ⁸ For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

⁹ Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For ^(C)Jews have no dealings with ^(D)Samaritans.

¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the ^(E)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 ^(F)living water.”

¹¹ The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? ¹² Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”

¹³ Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, ¹⁴ but ^(G)whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him ^(H)will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

^15 (I)The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”

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

¹⁷ The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.”

Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ ¹⁸ for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.”

¹⁹ The woman said to Him, “Sir, ^(J)I perceive that You are a prophet. ²⁰ Our fathers worshiped on ^(K)this mountain, and you Jews say that in ^(L)Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”

²¹ Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming ^(M)when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. ²² You worship ^(N)what you do not know; we know what we worship, for ^(O)salvation is of the Jews. ²³ But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will ^(P)worship the Father in ^(Q)spirit ^(R)and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. ^24 (S)God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

²⁵ The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah ^(T)is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, ^(U)He will tell us all things.”

²⁶ Jesus said to her, ^(V)“I who speak to you am He.”

The Whitened Harvest

²⁷ And at this point His disciples came, and they marveled that He talked with a woman; yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You talking with her?”

²⁸ The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, ²⁹ “Come, see a Man ^(W)who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?”