John 4:1–14

JESUS AND THE SAMARITAN WOMAN

4When Jesus^F learned that the Pharisees^j had heard he was making^k and baptizing more disciples than John^{l 2}(though Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were), ³he left Judea^m and went again to Galilee.^{n 4}He had to travel through Samaria;^{o 5}so he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property^G that Jacob^p had given his son Joseph.^{q 6}Jacob’s well^r was there, and Jesus, worn out from his journey, sat down at the well. It was about noon.^H

⁷A woman of Samaria came to draw water.^s

“Give me a drink,” Jesus said to her, ⁸because his disciples had gone into town to buy food.

⁹“How is it that you, a Jew,^t ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan^u woman?” she asked him. For Jews do not associate with^I Samaritans.^J

¹⁰Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God,^v and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would ask him, and he would give you living water.”^w

¹¹“Sir,”^x said the woman, “you don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do you get this ‘living water’? ¹²You aren’t greater than our father Jacob,^y are you? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.”

¹³Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again. ¹⁴But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again.^z In fact, the water I will give him will become a well^Aaa of water springing up in him for eternal life.”^ab