John 4:1-7 ▼

1 Now when Jesus realized that the Pharisees had heard he was making and baptizing more disciples than John—

2 although it was not Jesus who did the baptizing but his disciples—

3 he left Judea and went back to Galilee.

4 Now it was necessary for him to go through Samaria.

5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

6 Jacob's Well was also there, and Jesus, tired out by the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus told her, |Please give me a drink,|