John 4:1–14

Jesus Goes to Galilee

¹Therefore when ^aJesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and ^bbaptizing more disciples than John

²(although ^aJesus Himself was not baptizing, but His ^bdisciples were),

³He left ^aJudea and went away ^bagain into Galilee.

⁴And He had to pass through ^aSamaria.

⁵So He ^*came to a city of ^aSamaria called Sychar, near ^bthe field that ^cJacob gave to his son Joseph;

⁶and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, being wearied from His journey, was sitting thus by the well. It was about ¹the sixth hour.

Jesus and the Samaritan Woman

⁷A woman of Samaria ^*came to draw water. Jesus ^*said to her, “Give Me a drink.”

⁸For His ^adisciples had gone away into ^bthe city to buy food.

⁹Therefore the ^aSamaritan woman ^*said to Him, “How do You, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?” (For ^bJews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

¹⁰Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you ^aliving water.”

¹¹She ^*said to Him, “¹Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then do You get that ^aliving water?

¹²“Are You greater than our father Jacob, who ^agave us this well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle?”

¹³Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again;

¹⁴but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him ^awill never thirst—ever; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to ^beternal life.”