John 4:1–15

JESUS AND THE SAMARITAN WOMAN

4 When JesusF learned that the Phariseesj had heard he was makingk and baptizing more disciples than Johnl 2 (though Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were), 3 he left Judeam 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 propertyG that Jacobp had given his son Joseph.q 6 Jacob’s wellr was there, and Jesus, worn out from his journey, sat down at the well. It was about noon.H

7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water.s

“Give me a drink,” Jesus said to her, 8 because 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 Samaritanu woman?” she asked him. For Jews do not associate withI Samaritans.J

10 Jesus 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’? 12 You 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.”

13 Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again. 14 But 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 wellA,aa of water springing up in him for eternal life.”ab

15 “Sir,” the woman said to him, “give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and come here to draw water.”