¹¹ The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? ^12 (A)Are you greater than our father Jacob? ^(B)He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” ¹³ Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴ but ^(C)whoever drinks of the water that I will give him ^(D)will never be thirsty again.^[a] The water that I will give him will become ^(E)in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” ¹⁵ The woman said to him, “Sir, ^(F)give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”

¹⁶ Jesus said to her, “Go, ^(G)call your husband, and come here.” ¹⁷ The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘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.” ¹⁹ The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that ^(H)you are ^(I)a prophet. ^20 (J)Our fathers worshiped on ^(K)this mountain, but you say that ^(L)in Jerusalem is ^(M)the place where people ought to worship.” ²¹ Jesus said to her, ^(N)“Woman, believe me, ^(O)the hour is coming when ^(P)neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. ^22 (Q)You worship what you do not know; ^(R)we worship what we know, for ^(S)salvation is ^(T)from the Jews. ²³ But ^(U)the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father ^(V)in spirit and ^(W)truth, for the Father ^(X)is seeking such people to worship him.