John 4:1–14

When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and ^abaptized more disciples than John, ²(Though ^bJesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,) ³He left ^cJudaea, and departed ^dagain into Galilee. ⁴And he ^emust needs go through ^fSamaria. ⁵Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called ^gSychar, near to the parcel of ground ^hthat Jacob gave to his son Joseph. ⁶Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied ⁱwith his journey, sat ^kthus on the well: and it was about ^lthe sixth hour. ⁷There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. ⁸(For his disciples were gone away unto ^mthe city to buy meat.) ⁹Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for ⁿthe Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. ¹⁰Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee ^oliving water. ¹¹The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water? ¹²Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? ¹³Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: ¹⁴But ^pwhosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into ^ppeverlasting life.