Common English Bible

John 4:11-19 Common English Bible (CEB)

11. The woman said to him, "Sir, you don’t have a bucket and the well is deep. Where would you get this living water?

12. You aren’t greater than our father Jacob, are you? He gave this well to us, and he drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock."

13. Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,

14. but whoever drinks from the water that I will give will never be thirsty again. The water that I give will become in those who drink it a spring of water that bubbles up into eternal life."

15. The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I will never be thirsty and will never need to come here to draw water!"

16. Jesus said to her, "Go, get your husband, and come back here."

17. The woman replied, "I don’t have a husband." "You are right to say, ‘I don’t have a husband,’" Jesus answered.

18. "You’ve had five husbands, and the man you are with now isn’t your husband. You’ve spoken the truth."

19. The woman said, "Sir, I see that you are a prophet.