5. In Samaria Jesus came to the town called Sychar. This town 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. Jesus said to her, “Please give me a drink.”
8. (This happened while Jesus’ followers were in town buying some food.)
9. The woman said, “I am surprised that you ask me for a drink. You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan.” (Jews are not friends with Samaritans.)
10. Jesus said, “You don’t know what God gives. And you don’t know who asked you for a drink. If you knew, you would have asked me, and I would have given you living water.”
11. The woman said, “Sir, where will you get that living water? The well is very deep, and you have nothing to get water with.
12. Are you greater than Jacob, our father? Jacob is the one who gave us this well. He drank from it himself. Also, his sons and flocks drank from this well.”
13. Jesus answered, “Every person who drinks this water will be thirsty again.
14. But whoever drinks the water I give will never be thirsty again. The water I give will become a spring of water flowing inside him. It will give him eternal life.”