The woman said to him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet.

and said to Jesus, “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of adultery.

A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me some water to drink.”

Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people,

The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”

The woman replied, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “Right you are when you said, ‘I have no husband,’

The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (the one called Christ); “whenever he comes, he will tell us everything.”

Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you – a Jew – ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water to drink?” (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)

When a woman gives birth, she has distress because her time has come, but when her child is born, she no longer remembers the suffering because of her joy that a human being has been born into the world.