John 4:1-9

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

2(Actually, Jesus was not baptizing people. His disciples were.)

3So he left the Judean countryside and went back to Galilee.

4Jesus had to go through Samaria.

5He arrived at a city in Samaria called Sychar. Sychar was near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

6Jacob’s Well was there. Jesus sat down by the well because he was tired from traveling. The time was about noon.

7A Samaritan woman went to get some water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink of water.”

8(His disciples had gone into the city to buy some food.)

9The Samaritan woman asked him, “How can a Jewish man like you ask a Samaritan woman like me for a drink of water?” (Jews, of course, don’t associate with Samaritans.)