John 4:1-10 ▼

1 So 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),

3 He left Judea and returned again to Galilee.

4 Now He had to go through Samaria.

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

6 and 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).

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

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

9 The 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.)

10 Jesus 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).”