In order to get to Galilee, Jesus needed to pass through Samaria. Jesus and His disciples came to a city called Sychar, which was near a field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
Jacob’s well was there. Jesus was tired from the journey, and He rested by the well.
He sent His disciples into town to buy food. While Jesus was sitting alone, a Samaritan woman came to draw some water.
Jesus said to her,
“Give me a drink.”
The Samaritan woman was surprised and asked Him,
“How is that you who are a Jew would ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?” (The Jews did not associate with the Samaritans)
Jesus said to her,
“If you only knew the gift of God and who it is that is asking you for a drink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”
The woman said to Jesus,
“Sir, you have nothing to use to draw water out of the well, and the well is deep. Where are we going to get living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his cattle?”
Jesus said,
“Everyone who drinks this water will thirst again: but whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I give him will become a well of water in him springing up to eternal life.”
The woman said,
“Sir, give me this water so that I will never be thirsty again or need to come all this way to draw water from the well.”
Jesus said to her,
“Go call your husband and both of you come back here.”
The woman answered,
“I do not have a husband.”
Jesus said to her,
“You have answered correctly that you do not have a husband, for you have had five husbands and the man you’re now living with is not your husband. You have told the truth.”
