John 4:8-15

English Standard Version

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?” (^(A)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 ^(B)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 (C)Are you greater than our father Jacob? ^(D)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 ^(E)whoever drinks of the water that I will give him ^(F)will never be thirsty again.^[a] The water that I will give him will become ^(G)in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” ¹⁵ The woman said to him, “Sir, ^(H)give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”