| 3 When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and
went back once more to Galilee.
4 Now he had to go through Samaria.
5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar,
near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son
Joseph.
6 Jacob\'s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he
was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was
about the sixth hour.
7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water,
Jesus said to her, \"Will you give me a drink?\"
8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
9 The Samaritan woman said to him, \"You are a Jew
and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me
for a drink?\" (For Jews do not associate with
Samaritans. )
10 Jesus answered her, \"If you knew the gift of God
and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would
have asked him and he would have given you living
water.\"
11 \"Sir,\" the woman said, \"you have nothing to draw
with and the well is deep. Where can you get this
living water?
12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave
us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his
sons and his flocks and herds?\"
13 Jesus answered, \"Everyone who drinks this water
will be thirsty again,
14 but whoever drinks the water I give him will never
thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in
him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.\"
15 The woman said to him, \"Sir, give me this water so
that I won\'t get thirsty and have to keep coming here
to draw water.\"
16 He told her, \"Go, call your husband and come
back.\"
17 \"I have no husband,\" she replied.
18 Jesus said to her, \"You are right when you say
you have no husband. The fact is, you have had
five husbands, and the man you now have is not
your husband. What you have just said is quite
true.\"
19 \"Sir,\" the woman said, \"I can see that you are a
prophet.
20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you
Jews claim that the place where we must worship
is in Jerusalem.\"
21 Jesus declared, \"Believe me, woman, a time is
coming when you will worship the Father neither on
this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we
worship what we do know, for salvation is from the
Jews.
23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the
true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and
truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father
seeks.
24 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in
spirit and in truth.\"
25 The woman said, \"I know that Messiah\" (called
Christ) \"is coming. When he comes, he will explain
everything to us.\"
26 Then Jesus declared, \"I who speak to you am he.\"
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