1When therefore Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus makes more disciples and baptizes than John,2although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were.3he left Judea and went away again toward Galilee.4It was necessary for him to pass through Samaria.5He comes therefore to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the place which Jacob gave to Joseph his son.6There was Jacob's well there. Therefore Jesus, having labored from the journey, was sitting thus upon the well. The hour was about the sixth.7A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."8For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.9Therefore the Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.10Jesus answered her, "If you had known 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."11The woman said to him, "Lord, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. From where, then, do you have 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?"13Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks from this water will thirst again."14"But whoever drinks from 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 welling up to eternal life."15The woman said to him, "Lord, give me this water, so that I will not thirst or come here to draw."16He said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here."17The woman answered, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You have spoken well: '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."19The woman said to him, "Lord, I perceive that you are a prophet."20"Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where it is necessary to worship."21Jesus 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, for salvation is from the Jews."23"But an 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."25The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming, the one called Christ. When he comes, he will report all things to us."26Jesus said to her, "I who speak to you am he."