John 4:1-14

Christian Standard Bible

Jesus and the Samaritan Woman

4 When Jesus^[a] learned that the Pharisees^(A) had heard he was making^(B) and baptizing more disciples than John^{(C) 2} (though Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were), ³ he left Judea^(D) and went again to Galilee.^{(E) 4} He had to travel through Samaria;^{(F) 5} so he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property^[b] that Jacob^(G) had given his son Joseph.^{(H) 6} Jacob’s well^(I) was there, and Jesus, worn out from his journey, sat down at the well. It was about noon.^[c]

⁷ A woman of Samaria came to draw water.^(J)

“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,^(K) ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan^(L) woman?” she asked him. For Jews do not associate with^[d] Samaritans.^[e]

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

¹¹ “Sir,”^(O) said the woman, “you don’t even have a bucket, and the well is deep. So where do you get this ‘living water’? ¹² You aren’t greater than our father Jacob,^(P) are you? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock.”

¹³ Jesus said, “Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again. ¹⁴ But whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty again.^(Q) In fact, the water I will give him will become a well^[f](R) of water springing up in him for eternal life.”^(S)