Holman Christian Standard Bible

John 4:1-9 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

1. When Jesus knew that the Pharisees heard He was making and baptizing more disciples than John

2. (though Jesus Himself was not baptizing, but His disciples were),

3. He left Judea and went again to Galilee.

4. He had to travel through Samaria,

5. so He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar near the property that Jacob had given his son Joseph.

6. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, worn out from His journey, sat down at the well. It was about six in the evening.

7. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. “Give Me a drink,” Jesus said to her,

8. for His disciples had gone into town to buy food.

9. “How is it that You, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman? ” she asked Him. For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.