John 4:2-15

²(Though it was not Jesus himself, but his disciples, who baptised),

³he left Judea, and set out again for Galilee.

⁴He had to pass through Samaria,

⁵and, on his way, he came to a Samaritan town called Shechem, near the plot of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

⁶Jacob's Spring was there, and Jesus, being tired after his journey, sat down beside the spring, just as he was. It was then about midday.

⁷A woman of Samaria came to draw water; and Jesus said to her — “Give me some to drink,”

⁸For his disciples had gone into the town to buy food.

⁹“How is it,” replied the Samaritan woman, “that you who are a Jew ask for water from a Samaritan woman like me?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans).

¹⁰“If you knew of the gift of God,” replied Jesus, “and who it is that is saying to you ‘Give me some water,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

¹¹“You have no bucket, Sir, and the well is deep,” she said; “where did you get that ‘living water?’

¹²Surely you are not greater than our ancestor Jacob who gave us the well, and used to drink from it himself, and his sons, and his cattle!”

¹³“All who drink of this water,” replied Jesus, “will be thirsty again;

¹⁴but whoever once drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst any more; but the water that I will give him will become a spring welling up within him — a source of eternal life.”

¹⁵“Give me this water, Sir,” said the woman, “so that I may not be thirsty, nor have to come all the way here to draw water.”