John 4:1–14

When Jesus therefore understood the Pharisees had heard that Jesus maketh more disciples and baptizeth more than John

²(Though Jesus himself did not baptize, but his disciples),

³He left Judea and went again into Galilee.

⁴And he was of necessity to pass through Samaria.

⁵He cometh therefore to a city of Samaria, which is called Sichar, near the land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

⁶Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.

⁷There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus saith to her: Give me to drink.

⁸For his disciples were gone into the city to buy meats.

⁹Then that Samaritan woman saith to him: How dost thou, being a Jew; ask of me to drink, who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews do not communicate with the Samaritans.

¹⁰Jesus answered and said to her: If thou didst know the gift of God and who he is that saith to thee: Give me to drink; thou perhaps wouldst have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

¹¹The woman saith to him: Sir, thou hast nothing wherein to draw, and the well is deep. From whence then hast thou living water?

¹²Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank thereof, himself and his children and his cattle?

¹³Jesus answered and said to her: Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: but he that shall drink of the water that I will give him shall not thirst for ever.

¹⁴But the water that I will give him shall become in him a fountain of water, springing up into life everlasting.