4:7 A Samaritan woman 1 came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me some water 2 to drink.” 4:8 (For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies. 3 ) 4 4:9 So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you – a Jew 5 – ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water 6 to drink?” (For Jews use nothing in common 7 with Samaritans.) 8
4:10 Jesus answered 9 her, “If you had known 10 the gift of God and who it is who said to you, ‘Give me some water 11 to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 12 4:11 “Sir,” 13 the woman 14 said to him, “you have no bucket and the well 15 is deep; where then do you get this 16 living water? 17 4:12 Surely you’re not greater than our ancestor 18 Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.” 19
4:13 Jesus replied, 20 “Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty 21 again. 4:14 But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, 22 but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain 23 of water springing up 24 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 25 water.” 26 4:16 He 27 said to her, “Go call your husband and come back here.” 28 4:17 The woman replied, 29 “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “Right you are when you said, 30 ‘I have no husband,’ 31 4:18 for you have had five husbands, and the man you are living with 32 now is not your husband. This you said truthfully!”
4:19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I see 33 that you are a prophet. 4:20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, 34 and you people 35 say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.” 36 4:21 Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, 37 a time 38 is coming when you will worship 39 the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 4:22 You people 40 worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. 41 4:23 But a time 42 is coming – and now is here 43 – when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks 44 such people to be 45 his worshipers. 46 4:24 God is spirit, 47 and the people who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 4:25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (the one called Christ); 48 “whenever he 49 comes, he will tell 50 us everything.” 51 4:26 Jesus said to her, “I, the one speaking to you, am he.”
4:27 Now at that very moment his disciples came back. 52 They were shocked 53 because he was speaking 54 with a woman. However, no one said, “What do you want?” 55 or “Why are you speaking with her?” 4:28 Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people, 56 4:29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can’t be the Messiah, 57 can he?” 58 4:30 So 59 they left the town and began coming 60 to him.