7. A woman of Shomeron came to draw water. יהושע said to her, “Give Me to drink.”
8. For His taught ones had gone off into the city to buy food.
9. The woman of Shomeron therefore said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Yehuḏite, ask a drink from me, a woman of Shomeron?” For Yehuḏim do not associate with Shomeronites.
10. יהושע answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of Elohim, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me to drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”
11. The woman said to Him, “Master, You have no vessel, and the well is deep. From where, then, do You have living water?
12. “Are You greater than our father Ya‛aqoḇ, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?”
13. יהושע answered and said to her, “Everyone drinking of this water shall thirst again,
14. but whoever drinks of the water I give him shall certainly never thirst. And the water that I give him shall become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
15. The woman said to Him, “Master, give me this water, so that I do not thirst, nor come here to draw.”
16. יהושע said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
17. The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” יהושע 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. What you have said is true.”
19. The woman said to Him, “Master, I see that You are a prophet.
20. “Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you people say that in Yerushalayim is the place where one needs to worship.”
21. יהושע said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you shall neither on this mountain, nor in Yerushalayim, worship the Father.
22. “You worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because the deliverance is of the Yehuḏim.
23. “But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father also does seek such to worship Him.
24. “Elohim is Spirit, and those who worship Him need to worship in spirit and truth.”
25. The woman said to Him, “I know that Messiah is coming, the One who is called Anointed. When that One comes, He shall announce to us all.”