⁵ So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field ^(A)that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ⁶ Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, ^(B)wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.^[a]

⁷ A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, ^(C)“Give me a drink.” ⁸ (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) ⁹ The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (^(D)For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) ¹⁰ Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you ^(E)living water.” ¹¹ The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? ^12 (F)Are you greater than our father Jacob? ^(G)He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” ¹³ Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴ but ^(H)whoever drinks of the water that I will give him ^(I)will never be thirsty again.^[b] The water that I will give him will become ^(J)in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” ¹⁵ The woman said to him, “Sir, ^(K)give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”

¹⁶ Jesus said to her, “Go, ^(L)call your husband, and come here.” ¹⁷ The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; ¹⁸ for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” ¹⁹ The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that ^(M)you are ^(N)a prophet. ^20 (O)Our fathers worshiped on ^(P)this mountain, but you say that ^(Q)in Jerusalem is ^(R)the place where people ought to worship.” ²¹ Jesus said to her, ^(S)“Woman, believe me, ^(T)the hour is coming when ^(U)neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. ^22 (V)You worship what you do not know; ^(W)we worship what we know, for ^(X)salvation is ^(Y)from the Jews. ²³ But ^(Z)the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father ^(AA)in spirit and ^(AB)truth, for the Father ^(AC)is seeking such people to worship him. ²⁴ God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” ²⁵ The woman said to him, “I know that ^(AD)Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, ^(AE)he will tell us all things.” ²⁶ Jesus said to her, ^(AF)“I who speak to you am he.”

²⁷ Just then ^(AG)his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” ²⁸ So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, ²⁹ “Come, see a man ^(AH)who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” ³⁰ They went out of the town and were coming to him.

³⁹ Many Samaritans ^(A)from that town believed in him ^(B)because of ^(C)the woman's testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” ⁴⁰ So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. ⁴¹ And many more believed ^(D)because of his word. ⁴² They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, ^(E)and we know that this is indeed ^(F)the Savior ^(G)of the world.”