1. Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
2. (although Jesus himself was not baptizing, just his disciples),
3. he left Judea and returned to Galilee.
4. He had to pass through Samaria.
5. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
6. Jacob’s well was there. Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down there at the well. It was about noon.
7. A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”
8. His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.
9. The Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you, a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?” (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)
10. Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”