John 4:1-30

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

Jesus Goes To Galilee

4 So when Jesus knew^[a] that the Pharisees heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John ² (although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples), ³ He left Judea and went again^[b] toward Galilee. ⁴ And He had-to go through Samaria.

On The Way, Jesus Stops At a Well In Samaria

⁵ So He comes into a city of Samaria being called Sychar, near the place which Jacob gave to his son Joseph. ⁶ Now a spring of Jacob was there. So Jesus, having become weary from the journey, was sitting thus^[c] at the spring. The hour was about the sixth^[d].

He Talks With a Woman At The Well, And Tells Her He Is The Awaited Messiah

⁷ A woman of Samaria comes to draw water. Jesus says to her, “Give Me water to drink”. ⁸ For His disciples had gone into the city in order that they might buy food. ⁹ So the Samaritan woman says to Him, “How is it You, being a Jew, are asking something to drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?” For Jews do not use-things-together-with^[e] Samaritans. ¹⁰ Jesus responded and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and Who the One saying to you ‘Give Me water to drink’ is— you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water”. ¹¹ The woman says to Him, “Sir, You have no bucket and the well is deep. From where then do You have the living water? ¹² You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well, and himself drank from it, and his sons, and his animals?” ¹³ Jesus responded and said to her, “Everyone drinking from this water will thirst again. ¹⁴ But whoever should drink from the water which I will give him— he will never thirst, ever. On the contrary, the water which I will give him will become a spring of water in him, bubbling-up to eternal life”. ¹⁵ The woman says to Him, “Sir, give me this water in order that I may not be thirsting, nor coming here to draw it”. ¹⁶ He says to her, “Go, call your husband and come here”. ¹⁷ The woman responded and said to Him, “I do not have a husband”. Jesus says to her, “You said rightly that ‘I do not have a husband’. ¹⁸ For you had five husbands. And now he whom you have is not your husband. You have spoken this as a true thing”. ¹⁹ The woman says to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. ²⁰ Our fathers worshiped on this^[f] mountain, and you^[g] Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem”. ²¹ Jesus says to her, “Believe Me, woman, that an hour is coming when you^[h] Samaritans will give-worship to the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. ²² You Samaritans worship what you do not know. We Jews worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews. ²³ But an hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will give-worship to the Father in spirit and truth. For indeed the Father is seeking such ones to be the ones worshiping Him. ²⁴ God is spirit, and the ones worshiping Him must worship in spirit and truth”. ²⁵ The woman says to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming— the One being called Christ. When that One comes, He will declare all things to us”. ²⁶ Jesus says to her, “I, the One speaking to you, am He”.

The Disciples Marvel That He Was Speaking With a Woman

²⁷ And at this point His disciples came, and they were marveling that He was speaking with a woman. Yet no one said, “What are you seeking?” or, “Why are You speaking with her?” ²⁸ So the woman left her waterpot, and went into the city. And she says to the people, ²⁹ “Come, see a man Who told me everything that I did. This One is not the Christ, is He?” ³⁰ They went out of the city, and were coming to Him.