^43 (A)The next day He ^[a]decided to go to ^(B)Galilee, and He *found ^(C)Philip. And Jesus *said to him, “^(D)Follow Me.” ⁴⁴ Now ^(E)Philip was from ^(F)Bethsaida, the city of Andrew and Peter. ^45 (G)Philip *found ^(H)Nathanael and *said to him, “We have found Him of whom ^(I)Moses wrote in the Law, and ^(J)the prophets also wrote: Jesus ^(K)the son of Joseph, from ^(L)Nazareth!” ⁴⁶ Nathanael said to him, “^(M)Can anything good be from Nazareth?” ^(N)Philip *said to him, “Come and see.” ⁴⁷ Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and *said of him, “Here is truly an ^(O)Israelite, in whom there is no deceit!” ⁴⁸ Nathanael *said to Him, “How do You know me?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Before ^(P)Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you.” ⁴⁹ Nathanael answered Him, “^(Q)Rabbi, You are ^(R)the Son of God; You are the ^(S)King of Israel!” ⁵⁰ Jesus answered and said to him, “Because I said to you that I saw you under the fig tree, do you believe? You will see greater things than these.” ⁵¹ And He *said to him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you will see ^(T)heaven opened and ^(U)the angels of God ascending and descending on ^(V)the Son of Man.”

Jesus Goes to Galilee

4 So then, when ^(A)the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that ^[a]He was making and ^(B)baptizing more disciples than John ² (although ^(C)Jesus Himself was not baptizing; rather, His ^(D)disciples were), ³ He left ^(E)Judea and went away ^(F)again to Galilee. ⁴ And He had to pass through ^(G)Samaria. ⁵ So He *came to a city of ^(H)Samaria called Sychar, near ^(I)the parcel of land that ^(J)Jacob gave to his son Joseph; ⁶ and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, tired from His journey, was just sitting by the well. It was about ^[b]the sixth hour.

The Woman of Samaria

⁷ A woman of Samaria *came to draw water. Jesus *said to her, “Give Me a drink.” ⁸ For His ^(K)disciples had gone away to ^(L)the city to buy food. ⁹ So the ^(M)Samaritan woman *said to Him, “How is it that You, though You are a Jew, are asking me for a drink, though I am a Samaritan woman?” (For ^(N)Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) ¹⁰ Jesus replied to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you ^(O)living water.” ¹¹ She *said to Him, “^[c]Sir, You have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do You get this ^(P)living water? ¹² You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who ^(Q)gave us the well and drank of it himself, and his sons and his cattle?” ¹³ Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again; ¹⁴ but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him ^(R)shall never be thirsty; but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to ^(S)eternal life.”

¹⁵ The woman *said to Him, “^[d]Sir, ^(T)give me this water so that I will not be thirsty, nor come all the way here to draw water.” ¹⁶ He *said to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.” ¹⁷ The woman answered and said to Him, “I have no husband.” Jesus *said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I have no husband’; ¹⁸ for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this which you have said is true.” ¹⁹ The woman *said to Him, “^[e]Sir, I perceive that You are ^(U)a prophet. ^20 (V)Our fathers worshiped on ^(W)this mountain, and yet you Jews say that ^(X)in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship.” ²¹ Jesus *said to her, “Believe Me, woman, that ^[f](Y)a time is coming when you will worship the Father ^(Z)neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. ^22 (AA)You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, because ^(AB)salvation is from the Jews. ²³ But ^[g](AC)a time is coming, and ^[h]even now has arrived, when the true worshipers will worship the Father ^(AD)in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be ^[i]His worshipers. ²⁴ God is ^[j]spirit, and those who worship Him must worship ^(AE)in spirit and truth.” ²⁵ The woman *said to Him, “I know that ^(AF)Messiah is coming (^(AG)He who is called Christ); when that One comes, He will declare all things to us.” ²⁶ Jesus *said to her, “^(AH)I am He, the One speaking to you.”