John 4:3-26

When JESUS left Judea, going to Galilee, it was necessary for him to pass through Samaria. He came to Sychar, a city of Samaria near the property which Jacob had given to his son, Joseph. Jacob's well was there. JESUS was weary from the journey, so he sat down near the well, about noon. A Samaritan woman came to draw some water, and JESUS asked her for a drink. (His disciples had gone into the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jewish man, and I am a Samaritan woman. Why are you asking me for a drink of water?" (For Jews did not associate with Samaritans.) JESUS answered her and said, "If you knew about the gift of GOD, and who I am, you would be asking of me, and I would be giving you living water." The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing with which to draw water, and the well is deep, so where are you going to get this living water? Are you greater than our ancestor, Jacob, the one who gave us this well? He, his sons, and even his livestock all drank from this well." Then JESUS answered her, saying, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water that I will give them, will never be thirsty again. The water I give becomes a spring inside, welling up to eternal life." The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water that I may not thirst again, nor have to come back here again and again." JESUS said to her, "Go get your husband, and bring him back here." The woman answered, "But I have no husband." And JESUS said to her, "You have spoken correctly. You have no husband. You have had five husbands, but the one you now have is not your husband. So, yes, you spoke the truth." The woman then said to him, "Sir, you must be a prophet. Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that Jerusalem is the correct place to worship." JESUS said to her, "Woman, believe me. The time is coming when neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the FATHER. You Samaritans worship what you do not know, while we Jews worship what we do know. Salvation is from the Jews. But the time is coming, and now is, when true worshipers will worship the FATHER in spirit and in truth, for that is the kind of people that the FATHER is searching for to worship him. GOD is SPIRIT, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." The woman said to him, "I know that the MESSIAH, the ANOINTED ONE, is coming. When he comes, he will tell us all." Then JESUS said to her, "I am the ONE."