1. Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard the report that he was making and baptizing more followers than John.
2. (But really, Jesus himself did not baptize anyone; his followers baptized people for him.)
3. So he left Judea and went back to Galilee.
4. On the way to Galilee, he had to go through the country of Samaria.
5. In Samaria Jesus came to the town called Sychar, which is near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
6. Jacob’s well was there. Jesus was tired from his long trip, so he sat down beside the well. It was about noon.
7. A Samaritan woman came to the well to get some water, and Jesus said to her, “Please give me a drink.”
8. This happened while his followers were in town buying some food.
9. The woman answered, “I am surprised that you ask me for a drink! You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman!” (Jews have nothing to do with Samaritans.)
10. Jesus answered, “You don’t know what God can give you. And you don’t know who I am, the one who asked you for a drink. If you knew, you would have asked me, and I would have given you living water.”