Jesus and the Woman of Samaria

4 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), 3 he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. 4 And he had to pass through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour.

7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”

7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

9 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For 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 living water.”

11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”

13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

15 The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”

16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”

17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.”

Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’ 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; in that you spoke truly.”

19 The woman said to Him, “Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship.”

21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. 24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

25 The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will tell us all things.”

26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am He.”

1 My heart was pruned and its flower appeared,

then grace sprang up in it,

and it produced fruits for the Lord.

2 For the Most High circumcised me by his Holy Spirit,

then he uncovered my inward being toward him,

and filled me with his love.

3* And his circumcising became my salvation,

and I ran in the Way in his peace,

in the Way of truth.

4 From the beginning until the end

I received his knowledge.

5 And I was established upon the rock of truth,

where he had set me.

6* And speaking waters touched my lips

from the spring of the Lord generously.

7* And so I drank and became intoxicated,

from the living water that does not die.

8 And my intoxication was not with ignorance;

but I abandoned vanity;

9 And turned toward the Most High, my God,

and was enriched by his favors.

10 And I abandoned the folly cast upon the earth,

and stripped it off and cast it from me.

11 And the Lord renewed me with his garment,

and possessed me by his light.

12 And from above he gave me immortal rest;

and I became like the land which blossoms and rejoices in its fruits.

13 And the Lord (is) like the sun

upon the face of the land.

14 My eyes were enlightened,

and my face received the dew;

15 And my breath was refreshed

by the pleasant fragrance of the Lord.