July 5, 2026 PORTALS OF PRAYER READINGS
John 4:1-26
Jesus and the Woman of Samaria
4 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees
had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although
Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), 3 he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. 4 And he had to pass through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar,
near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, wearied as
he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth
hour.[a]
7 A woman from Samaria came
to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8 (For
his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that
you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no
dealings with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus
answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who
it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and
he would have given you living water.” 11 The
woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is
deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 Are
you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it
himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” 13 Jesus
said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water
will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever
drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again.[b] The
water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up
to eternal life.” 15 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.”
16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call
your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered him,
“I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are
right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for
you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What
you have said is true.” 19 The
woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but
you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to
worship.” 21 Jesus said to
her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming
when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the
Father. 22 You worship what you do
not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the
Jews. 23 But the hour is
coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the
Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such
people to worship him. 24 God is
spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah
is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all
things.” 26 Jesus said to
her, “I who speak to you am he.”
Footnotes
Psalm 95
Let Us Sing Songs of Praise
95 Oh come, let us sing to
the Lord;
let
us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
2 Let us come into his presence with
thanksgiving;
let
us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!
3 For the Lord is a
great God,
and a
great King above all gods.
4 In his hand are the depths of the earth;
the
heights of the mountains are his also.
5 The sea is his, for he made it,
and his
hands formed the dry land.
6 Oh come, let us worship
and bow down;
let
us kneel before the Lord,
our Maker!
7 For he is our God,
and we
are the people of his pasture,
and the
sheep of his hand.
Today, if you hear his voice,
8 do not
harden your hearts, as at Meribah,
as on
the day at Massah in the wilderness,
9 when your fathers put me to the test
and put
me to the proof, though they had seen my work.
10 For forty years I loathed that generation
and
said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart,
and they
have not known my ways.”
11 Therefore I swore in my wrath,
“They
shall not enter my rest.”
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