The Woman at the Well

4 He had to pass through Samaria. 5 So he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob's well was there. Jesus, tired from the journey, therefore sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. 7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me something to drink.” 8 His disciples had gone into the city to buy food. 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for something to drink?” For Jews do not associate with Samaritans. 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is saying to you, ‘Give me something to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where then do you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock?” 13 Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks from this water will become thirsty again. 14 But whoever drinks from the water I will give will never thirst again. The water I give will become in that person a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I will not become thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.” 16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come back here.” 17 The woman answered, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right to say, ‘I have no husband.’ 18 You have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true.” 19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. 23 But an hour is coming, and is already here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth. 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 said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming, the one called Christ. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one speaking with you.”