John 4:7-14 ▼

7 Presently there came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus asked her to give Him some water;

8 for His disciples were gone to the town to buy provisions.

9 "How is it," replied the woman, "that a Jew like you asks me, who am a woman and a Samaritan, for water?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

10 "If you had known God's free gift," replied Jesus, "and who it is that said to you, 'Give me some water,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water."

11 "Sir," she said, "you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; so where can you get the living water from?

12 Are you greater than our forefather Jacob, who gave us the well, and himself drank from it, as did also his sons and his cattle?"

13 "Every one," replied Jesus, "who drinks any of this water will be thirsty again;

14 but whoever drinks any of the water that I shall give him will never, never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become a fountain within him of water springing up for the Life of the Ages."