John 4:13-30

English Standard Version

¹³ Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, ¹⁴ but ^(A)whoever drinks of the water that I will give him ^(B)will never be thirsty again.^[a] The water that I will give him will become ^(C)in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” ¹⁵ The woman said to him, “Sir, ^(D)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, ^(E)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 ^(F)you are ^(G)a prophet. ^20 (H)Our fathers worshiped on ^(I)this mountain, but you say that ^(J)in Jerusalem is ^(K)the place where people ought to worship.” ²¹ Jesus said to her, ^(L)“Woman, believe me, ^(M)the hour is coming when ^(N)neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. ^22 (O)You worship what you do not know; ^(P)we worship what we know, for ^(Q)salvation is ^(R)from the Jews. ²³ But ^(S)the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father ^(T)in spirit and ^(U)truth, for the Father ^(V)is seeking such people to worship him. ²⁴ God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” ²⁵ The woman said to him, “I know that ^(W)Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, ^(X)he will tell us all things.” ²⁶ Jesus said to her, ^(Y)“I who speak to you am he.”

²⁷ Just then ^(Z)his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” ²⁸ So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, ²⁹ “Come, see a man ^(AA)who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” ³⁰ They went out of the town and were coming to him.