John 4:1-13

1When Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard he was making and baptizing more disciples than John

2(though Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were),

3he left Judea and went again to Galilee.

4He had to travel through Samaria;

5so he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property that Jacob had given his son Joseph.

6Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, worn out from his journey, sat down at the well. It was about noon.

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

8because his disciples had gone into town to buy food.

9“How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” she asked him. For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.

10Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would ask him, and he would give you living water.”

11“Sir,” said the woman, “you don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do you get this ‘living water’?

12You aren’t greater than our father Jacob, are you? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.”

13Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again.