⁷ A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, ^(A)“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?” (^(B)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 ^(C)living water.”

²⁶ And ^(A)he made from one man every nation of mankind to live ^(B)on all the face of the earth, ^(C)having determined allotted periods and ^(D)the boundaries of their dwelling place, ^27 (E)that they should seek God, ^(F)and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. ^(G)Yet he is actually not far from each one of us, ²⁸ for

as even some of ^(I)your own poets have said,

⁴ And ^(A)he reasoned in the synagogue ^(B)every Sabbath, and tried to persuade Jews and Greeks.

^5 (C)When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul ^(D)was occupied with the word, ^(E)testifying to the Jews that the Christ was ^(F)Jesus. ⁶ And when they opposed and reviled him, ^(G)he shook out his garments and said to them, ^(H)“Your blood be on your own heads! ^(I)I am innocent. ^(J)From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”