John 4:1-14 ▼

1 Thus when the Lord knew when the Pharisees heard that Jesus is making and baptizing more disciples than John

2 (truly Jesus himself was not baptizing, but His disciples),

3 He left Judea and came again into Galilee.

4 And it behooved Him to go through Samaria.

5 Then He comes into a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the place which Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

6 And the well of Jacob was there. Then Jesus having become weary from the journey, was sitting thus by the well: it was about the sixth hour.

7 A woman comes from Samaria to draw water. Jesus says to her, Give me to drink.

8 For His disciples had gone into the city, that they might purchase food.

9 A Samaritan woman says to Him, How do you, being a Jew, ask to drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?

10 And Jesus responded and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and the one who is speaking to you, Give me to drink; you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.

11 The woman says to Him, Sir, thou hast no windlass, and the well is deep: whence hast thou living water?

12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and himself and his sons, and his herds, drank of it?

13 Jesus responded and said to her, Every one drinking of this water shall thirst again:

14 but whosoever may drink of the water that I shall give to him shall never thirst; but the water which I shall give to him shall be in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life.