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Jesus and the Samaritan Woman at the Well

John 4:1-26

Chapter 4

¹ Therefore, when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John— ² although Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples— ³ He left Judea and went away again into Galilee. ⁴ It was necessary, however, for him to pass through Samaria. ⁵ He therefore comes to a city in Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. ⁶ Now Jacob’s spring was there. Jesus, weary from the journey, was sitting there by the spring. It was about the sixth hour. ⁷ A woman from Samaria comes to draw water. Jesus says to her, “Give me a drink.” ⁸ For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. ⁹ The Samaritan woman therefore says to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink? For Jews do not share vessels with Samaritans.” ¹⁰ Jesus answered 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 living water.” ¹¹ The woman says to him, “Sir, you have neither a bucket, nor is the well deep. Where then do you get the living water?” ¹² "Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock?" ¹³ Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks from this water will thirst again." ¹⁴ but whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never thirst forever. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water springing up to eternal life. ¹⁵ The woman says to him, “Lord, give me this water, so that I may not thirst or come here to draw.” ¹⁶ He says to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here." ¹⁷ The woman answered and said to him, "I do not have a husband." Jesus says to her, "You are right when you say, 'I do not have a husband.'" ¹⁸ for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband; this you have spoken truly. ¹⁹ The woman says to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet." ²⁰ Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people must worship. ²¹ Jesus said to her, "Believe me, woman, an hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father." ²² You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. ²³ but the hour is coming and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to worship him. ²⁴ God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth. ²⁵ The woman says to him, “I know that Messiah is coming, the one called Christ. When he comes, he will tell us all things.” ²⁶ Jesus says to her, “I am the one speaking to you.”