004:003 He left Judaea and returned to Galilee.
004:004 His road lay through Samaria,
004:005 and so He came to Sychar, a town in Samaria near the piece
of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
004:006 Jacob's Well was there: and accordingly Jesus,
tired out with His journey, sat down by the well to rest.
It was about six o'clock in the evening.
004:007 Presently there came a woman of Samaria to draw water.
Jesus asked her to give Him some water;
004:008 for His disciples were gone to the town to buy provisions.
004:009 "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.)
004:010 "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."
004:011 "Sir," she said, "you have nothing to draw with, and the well
is deep; so where can you get the living water from?
004:012 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?"
004:013 "Every one," replied Jesus, "who drinks any of this water
will be thirsty again;
004:014 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."
004:015 "Sir," said the woman, "give me that water, that I may never
be thirsty, nor continually come all the way here to draw
from the well."