¹³ Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴ but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst.^(A) Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water^(B) welling up to eternal life.”^(C)

¹⁵ The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty^(D) and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

¹⁶ He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”

¹⁷ “I have no husband,” she replied.

Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. ¹⁸ The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”

¹⁹ “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet.^{(E) 20} Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain,^(F) but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”^(G)

²¹ “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming^(H) when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.^{(I) 22} You Samaritans worship what you do not know;^(J) we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.^{(K) 23} Yet a time is coming and has now come^(L) when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit^(M) and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.