1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard 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 went away again into Galilee.
4 And He had to pass through Samaria.
5 So He came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;
6 and Jacob's well was there. So Jesus, being wearied from His journey, was sitting thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, |Give Me a drink.|
8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
9 Therefore the Samaritan woman said to Him, |How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me for a drink since I am a Samaritan woman?| (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
10 Jesus answered and said to her, |If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.|
11 She said to Him, |Sir, You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep; where then do You get that living water?
12 |You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself and his sons and his cattle?|
13 Jesus answered and said to her, |Everyone who 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 will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.|
15 The woman said to Him, |Sir, give me this water, so I will not be thirsty nor come all the way here to draw.|
16 He said to her, |Go, call your husband and come here.|
17 The woman answered and said, |I have no husband.| Jesus said to her, |You have correctly said, 'I have no husband';
18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this you have said truly.|
