International Children’s Bible

John 4:8-17 International Children’s Bible (ICB)

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.”

15. The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water. Then I will never be thirsty again. And I will not have to come back here to get more water.”

16. Jesus told her, “Go get your husband and come back here.”

17. The woman answered, “But I have no husband.”Jesus said to her, “You are right to say you have no husband.