John 4:13-29 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

13. Jesus responded and said to her: "All who drink from this water will thirst again. But whoever shall drink from the water that I will give to him will not thirst for eternity.

14. Instead, the water that I will give to him will become in him a fountain of water, springing up into eternal life."

15. The woman said to him, "Lord, give me this water, so that I may not thirst and may not come here to draw water."

16. Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and return here."

17. The woman responded and said, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her: "You have spoken well, in saying, 'I have no husband.'

18. For you have had five husbands, but he whom you have now is not your husband. You have spoken this in truth."

19. The woman said to him: "Lord, I see that you are a Prophet.

20. Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you say that Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship."

21. Jesus said to her: "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you shall worship the Father, neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem.

22. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know. For salvation is from the Jews.

23. But the hour is coming, and it is now, when true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeks such persons who may worship him.

24. God is Spirit. And so, those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth."

25. The woman said to him: "I know that the Messiah is coming (who is called the Christ). And then, when he will have arrived, he will announce everything to us."

26. Jesus said to her: "I am he, the one who is speaking with you."

27. And then his disciples arrived. And they wondered that he was speaking with the woman. Yet no one said: "What are you seeking?" or, "Why are you talking with her?"

28. And so the woman left behind her water jar and went into the city. And she said to the men there:

29. "Come and see a man who has told me all the things that I have done. Is he not the Christ?"

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