4:1 Now when Jesus 1 knew that the Pharisees 2 had heard that he 3 was winning 4 and baptizing more disciples than John 4:2 (although Jesus himself was not baptizing, but his disciples were), 5 4:3 he left Judea and set out once more for Galilee. 6
4:4 But he had 7 to pass through Samaria. 8 4:5 Now he came to a Samaritan town 9 called Sychar, 10 near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 11 4:6 Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside 12 the well. It was about noon. 13
4:7 A Samaritan woman 14 came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me some water 15 to drink.” 4:8 (For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies. 16 ) 17 4:9 So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you – a Jew 18 – ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water 19 to drink?” (For Jews use nothing in common 20 with Samaritans.) 21
4:10 Jesus answered 22 her, “If you had known 23 the gift of God and who it is who said to you, ‘Give me some water 24 to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 25 4:11 “Sir,” 26 the woman 27 said to him, “you have no bucket and the well 28 is deep; where then do you get this 29 living water? 30 4:12 Surely you’re not greater than our ancestor 31 Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.” 32
4:13 Jesus replied, 33 “Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty 34 again. 4:14 But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, 35 but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain 36 of water springing up 37 to eternal life.”