John 4:1–14

The Samaritan Woman at Jacob’s Well

4Now when Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John ²(although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples), ³he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. ⁴And it was necessary for him to go through Samaria.

⁵Now he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. ⁶And Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, because he had become tired from the journey, simply sat down at the well. It was about the sixth hour.

⁷A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me water^* to drink.” ⁸(For his disciples had gone away into the town so that they could buy food.) ⁹So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How do you, being a Jew, ask from me water^* to drink, since I^* am a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

¹⁰Jesus answered and said to her, “If you had known the gift of God and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me water^* to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” ¹¹The woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket and the well is deep! From where then do you get this living water? ¹²You are not greater than our father Jacob, are you,^* who gave us the well and drank from it himself, and his sons and his livestock?”

¹³Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again. ¹⁴But whoever drinks of this water which I will give to him will never be thirsty for eternity, but the water which I will give to him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”