John 4:1-13

1So when the Lord learned that the Pharisees had been told that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

2(although Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were),

3He left Judea and returned again to Galilee.

4Now He had to go through Samaria.

5So He arrived at a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the tract of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;

6and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, tired as He was from His journey, sat down by the well. It was then about the sixth hour (noon).

7Then a woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink”—

8For His disciples had gone off into the city to buy food—

9The Samaritan woman asked Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?” (For Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.)

10Jesus answered her, “If you knew [about] God’s gift [of eternal life], and who it is who says, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him [instead], and He would have given you living water (eternal life).”

11She said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with [no bucket and rope] and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water?

12Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and who used to drink from it himself, and his sons and his cattle also?”

13Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.