⁵ So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar,^[a] near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.^{(A) 6} Jacob’s well was there. Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down there at the well. It was about noon.

⁷ A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” ⁸ His disciples had gone into the town to buy food. ^9 [b]The Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you, a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?”^(B) (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.) ^10 [c]Jesus answered and said to her,^(C) “If you knew the gift of God and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” ¹¹ [The woman] said to him, “Sir,^[d] you do not even have a bucket and the well is deep; where then can you get this living water? ¹² Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself with his children and his flocks?”^{(D) 13} Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again; ¹⁴ but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”^{(E) 15} The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.”

¹⁹ The woman said to him, “Sir, I can see that you are a prophet.^{(A) 20} Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain;^[a] but you people say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.”^{(B) 21} Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. ²² You people worship what you do not understand; we worship what we understand, because salvation is from the Jews.^{(C) 23} But the hour is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth;^[b] and indeed the Father seeks such people to worship him. ²⁴ God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship in Spirit and truth.”^{(D) 25 [c]}The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah is coming,^(E) the one called the Anointed; when he comes, he will tell us everything.” ²⁶ Jesus said to her, “I am he,^[d] the one who is speaking with you.”^(F)

³⁹ Many of the Samaritans of that town began to believe in him because of the word of the woman^[a] who testified, “He told me everything I have done.”

⁴⁰ When the Samaritans came to him, they invited him to stay with them; and he stayed there two days. ⁴¹ Many more began to believe in him because of his word, ⁴² and they said to the woman, “We no longer believe because of your word; for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the savior of the world.”^(A)