John 4:1-14 ▼

1 When, therefore, the Lord knew that the Pharisees heard that Jesus was making and immersing more disciples than John

2 (although Jesus Himself did not immerse, but His disciples),

3 He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.

4 And it was necessary that He should go through Samaria.

5 He cometh, therefore, to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the piece of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph;

6 and Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being wearied with His journey, was sitting thus at the well. It was about the sixth hour.

7 There comes a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith to her, "Give Me to drink."

8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy bread.

9 The Samaritan woman, therefore, says to Him, "How is it that Thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, who 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, That saith to you 'Give Me to drink,' you would have asked of Him, and He would have given you living water."

11 She says to Him, "Sir, Thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Whence, therefore, hast Thou the living water

12 Art Thou greater than our Father Jacob, who gave us the well, and himself drank of it, and his sons, and his cattle?"

13 Jesus answered and said to her, "Every one who drinks of this water will thirst again;

14 but whosoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up into eternal life."