4:1 Now when Jesus 1 knew that the Pharisees 2 had heard that he 3 was winning 4 and baptizing more disciples than John 4:2 (although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were), 5 4:3 he left Judea and set out once more for Galilee. 6
4:4 But he had 7 to pass through Samaria. 8 4:5 Now he came to a Samaritan town 9 called Sychar, 10 near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 11 4:6 Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside 12 the well. It was about noon. 13
4:7 A Samaritan woman 14 came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me some water 15 to drink.” 4:8 (For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies. 16 ) 17 4:9 So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you – a Jew 18 – ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water 19 to drink?” (For Jews use nothing in common 20 with Samaritans.) 21
4:10 Jesus answered 22 her, “If you had known 23 the gift of God and who it is who said to you, ‘Give me some water 24 to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 25 4:11 “Sir,” 26 the woman 27 said to him, “you have no bucket and the well 28 is deep; where then do you get this 29 living water? 30 4:12 Surely you’re not greater than our ancestor 31 Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.” 32
4:13 Jesus replied, 33 “Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty 34 again. 4:14 But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, 35 but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain 36 of water springing up 37 to eternal life.” 4:15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw 38 water.” 39 4:16 He 40 said to her, “Go call your husband and come back here.” 41 4:17 The woman replied, 42 “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “Right you are when you said, 43 ‘I have no husband,’ 44 4:18 for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with 45 now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!”
4:19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I see 46 that you are a prophet. 4:20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, 47 and you people 48 say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.” 49 4:21 Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, 50 a time 51 is coming when you will worship 52 the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 4:22 You people 53 worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. 54 4:23 But a time 55 is coming – and now is here 56 – when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks 57 such people to be 58 his worshipers. 59 4:24 God is spirit, 60 and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”