John 4:5-42

Legacy Standard Bible

⁵ So He *came to a city of ^(A)Samaria called Sychar, near ^(B)the field that ^(C)Jacob gave to his son Joseph; ⁶ and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, being wearied from His journey, was sitting thus by the well. It was about ^[a]the sixth hour.

Jesus and the Samaritan Woman

⁷ A woman of Samaria *came to draw water. Jesus *said to her, “Give Me a drink.” ⁸ For His ^(D)disciples had gone away into ^(E)the city to buy food. ⁹ Therefore the ^(F)Samaritan woman *said to Him, “How do You, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?” (For ^(G)Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) ¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you ^(H)living water.” ¹¹ She *said to Him, “^[b]Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then do You get that ^(I)living water? ¹² Are You greater than our father Jacob, who ^(J)gave us this well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle?” ¹³ Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again; ¹⁴ but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him ^(K)will never thirst—ever; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to ^(L)eternal life.”

¹⁵ The woman *said to Him, “^[c]Sir, ^(M)give me this water, so I will not be thirsty nor come back here to draw.” ¹⁶ He *said to her, “Go, call your husband and come back here.” ¹⁷ The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus *said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I have no husband’; ¹⁸ for you had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly.” ¹⁹ The woman *said to Him, “^[d]Sir, I see that You are ^(N)a prophet. ^20 (O)Our fathers worshiped on ^(P)this mountain, and you people say that ^(Q)in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.” ²¹ Jesus *said to her, “Woman, believe Me, ^(R)an hour is coming when ^(S)neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. ^22 (T)You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for ^(U)salvation is from the Jews. ²³ But ^(V)an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father ^(W)in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be His worshipers. ²⁴ God is ^[e]spirit, and those who worship Him must worship ^(X)in spirit and truth.” ²⁵ The woman *said to Him, “I know that ^(Y)Messiah is coming (^(Z)He who is called ^[f]Christ); when He comes, He will declare all things to us.” ²⁶ Jesus *said to her, “^(AA)I who speak to you am He.”

²⁷ And at this point His ^(AB)disciples came, and they were marveling that He was speaking with a woman, yet no one said, “What do You seek?” or, “Why are You speaking with her?” ²⁸ So the woman left her water jar, and went into the city and *said to the men, ²⁹ “Come, see a man ^(AC)who told me all the things that I have done; ^(AD)is this not the ^[g]Christ?” ³⁰ They went out of the city, and were coming to Him.

³¹ Meanwhile the disciples were urging Him, saying, “^(AE)Rabbi, eat.” ³² But He said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” ³³ So the ^(AF)disciples were saying to one another, “Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?” ³⁴ Jesus *said to them, “My food is to ^(AG)do the will of Him who sent Me and to ^(AH)finish His work. ³⁵ Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look on the fields, that they are white ^(AI)for harvest. ³⁶ Even now he who reaps is receiving ^(AJ)wages and is gathering ^(AK)fruit for ^(AL)life eternal; so that he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. ³⁷ For in this case the saying is true, ‘^(AM)One sows and another reaps.’ ³⁸ I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”

Many Samaritans Believe

³⁹ From ^(AN)that city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who bore witness, “^(AO)He told me all the things that I have done.” ⁴⁰ So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they were asking Him to stay with them; and He stayed there two days. ⁴¹ And many more believed because of His word; ⁴² and they were saying to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this One is truly ^(AP)the Savior of the world.”