John 4:1–14

¹When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus more disciples doth make and baptize than John, ²(though indeed Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples,) ³he left Judea and went away again to Galilee.

⁴And it was behoving him to go through Samaria. ⁵He cometh, therefore, to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the place that Jacob gave to Joseph his son; ⁶and there was there a well of Jacob. Jesus therefore having been weary from the journeying, was sitting thus on the well; it was as it were the sixth hour; ⁷there cometh a woman out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith to her, ‘Give me to drink;’ ⁸for his disciples were gone away to the city, that they may buy victuals; ⁹the Samaritan woman therefore saith to him, ‘How dost thou, being a Jew, ask drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?’ for Jews have no dealing with Samaritans. ¹⁰Jesus answered and said to her, ‘If thou hadst known the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked him, and he would have given thee living water.’ ¹¹The woman saith to him, ‘Sir, thou hast not even a vessel to draw with, and the well is deep; whence, then, hast thou the living water? ¹²Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who did give us the well, and himself out of it did drink, and his sons, and his cattle?’ ¹³Jesus answered and said to her, ‘Every one who is drinking of this water shall thirst again; ¹⁴but whoever may drink of the water that I will give him, may not thirst—to the age; and the water that I will give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up to life age-during.’