John 4:1-14 ▼

1 When, therefore, the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and immersing more disciples than John,

2 (though not Jesus himself, but his disciples immersed,)

3 he left Judea, and went again into Galilee.

4 And it was necessary that he should go through Samaria.

5 He came, therefore, to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

6 And Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.

7 There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. And Jesus said to her: Give me to drink.

8 For his disciples had gone into the city to buy food.

9 Then the woman of Samaria said to him: How is it that you, who are a Jew, ask drink of me, who am a woman of Samaria? (For the Jews have no social intercourse with the Samaritans.)

10 Jesus answered and said to her: If you had known the gift of God, and who it is that said to you, Give me to drink, you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water.

11 The woman said to him: Sir, you have no vessel with which you can draw, and the well is deep; whence have you that living water?

12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle?

13 Jesus answered and said to her: "Whoever drinks of this water, will thirst again;

14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him, shall never thirst. But the water that I will give him, shall be in him a fountain of water springing up in order to eternal life.