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Samaritan* woman came to the well to get some water, and Jesus said to her, “Please give me a drink.” 8This happened while his followers were in town buying some food. 9The woman answered, “I am surprised that you ask me for a drink! You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman!” (Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.a) 10Jesus answered, “You don’t know what God can give you. And you don’t know who I am, the one who asked you for a drink. If you knew, you would have asked me, and I would have given you living water.” 11The woman said, “Sir, where will you get that living water? The well is very deep, and you have nothing to get water with. 12Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob*? He is the one who gave us this well. He drank from it himself, and his sons and all his animals drank from it too.” 13Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. 14But anyone who drinks the water I give will never be thirsty again. The water I give people will be like a spring flowing inside them. It will bring them eternal life.” 15The woman said to Jesus, “Sir, give me this water. Then I will never be thirsty again and won’t have to come back here to get more water.” 16Jesus told her, “Go get your husband and come back.” 17The woman answered, “But I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right to say you have no husband. 18That’s because, although you have had five husbands, the man you live with now is not your husband. That much was the truth.” 19The woman said, “Sir, I can see that you are a prophet.b 20Our fathers worshiped on this mountain. But you Jews say that Jerusalem is the place where people must worship.” 21Jesus said, “Believe me, woman! The time is coming when you will not have to be in Jerusalem or on this mountain to worship the Father. 22You Samaritans worship something you don’t understand. We Jews understand what we worship, since salvation comes from the Jews. 23But the time is coming when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. In fact, that time is now here. And these are the kind of people the Father wants to be his worshipers. 24God is spirit. So