John 4:1-10 ▼

1 When Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard he was making and baptizing more disciples than John

2 (though Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were),

3 he left Judea and went again to Galilee.

4 He had to travel through Samaria;

5 so he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property that Jacob had given his son Joseph.

6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, worn out from his journey, sat down at the well. It was about noon.

7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. “Give me a drink,” Jesus said to her,

8 because his disciples had gone into town to buy food.

9 “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman? ” she asked him. For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.

10 Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would ask him, and he would give you living water.”