1. Jesus knew that the Pharisees had heard that he was winning and baptizing more followers than John was.
2. But Jesus' disciples were really the ones doing the baptizing, and not Jesus himself.
3. Jesus left Judea and started for Galilee again.
4. This time he had to go through Samaria,
5. and on his way he came to the town of Sychar. It was near the field that Jacob had long ago given to his son Joseph.
6-8. The well that Jacob had dug was still there, and Jesus sat down beside it because he was tired from travelling. It was midday, and after Jesus' disciples had gone into town to buy some food, a Samaritan woman came to draw water from the well.Jesus asked her, “Would you please give me a drink of water?”
9. “You are a Jew,” she replied, “and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink of water when Jews and Samaritans won't have anything to do with each other?”
10. Jesus answered, “You don't know what God wants to give you, and you don't know who is asking you for a drink. If you did, you would ask me for the water that gives life.”
11. “Sir,” the woman said, “you don't even have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this life-giving water?
12. Our ancestor Jacob dug this well for us, and his family and animals got water from it. Are you greater than Jacob?”