John 4:4-17

English Standard Version

^4 (A)And he had to pass through Samaria. ⁵ So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field ^(B)that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ⁶ Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, ^(C)wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.^[a]

⁷ A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, ^(D)“Give me a drink.” ⁸ (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) ⁹ The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (^(E)For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) ¹⁰ Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you ^(F)living water.” 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 (G)Are you greater than our father Jacob? ^(H)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 ^(I)whoever drinks of the water that I will give him ^(J)will never be thirsty again.^[b] The water that I will give him will become ^(K)in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” ¹⁵ The woman said to him, “Sir, ^(L)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, ^(M)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’;