John 4:1-15 ▼

1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus makes and baptizes more disciples than John,

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

3 He left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.

4 And it was necessary for him to pass through Samaria.

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

6 And Jacob's spring was there. Then Jesus, wearied with the journey, sat thus by the spring: it was about the sixth hour.

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

8 (For his disciples were gone into the city that they might buy food.)

9 Then says the Samaritan woman to him, How thou, being a Jew, askest of me to drink, being a Samaritan woman? for the Jews have no intercourse with the Samaritans.

10 And Jesus answered and said to her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who he is saying to thee, Give me to drink: thou hadst asked him, and he had given thee living water.

11 The woman says to him, Lord, thou hast no vessel for drawing, and the well is deep; whence then hast thou the living water?

12 Thou art not greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and he himself drank of it, and his sons, and his young animals.

13 Jesus answered and said to her, All drinking of this water shall thirst again:

14 But whoever should drink of the water which I shall give him, shall never thirst; but the water which I shall give him shall be in him a spring of water springing up to eternal life.

15 The woman says to him, Lord, give me this water, that I thirst not, nor come here to draw.