1 When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,

 ²(Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)

 ³He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.

 ⁴And he must needs go through Samaria.

 ⁵Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

 ⁶Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.

 ⁷There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

 ⁸(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)

 ⁹Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

 ¹⁰Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

 ¹¹The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

 ¹²Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

 ¹³Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:

 ¹⁴But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

 ¹⁵The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.

 ¹⁶Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

 ¹⁷The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:

 ¹⁸For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.

 ¹⁹The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.

 ²⁰Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.

 ²¹Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.

 ²²Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

 ²³But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him.

 ²⁴God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

 ²⁵The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.

 ²⁶Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.

 ²⁷And upon this came his disciples, and marvelled that he talked with the woman: yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?

 ²⁸The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,

 ²⁹Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?

 ³⁰Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.