Bible Timeline · The Life of Jesus

The Samaritan Woman

Approximately AD 27, lasting about 1 day. 38 verses describe this event, involving Jesus.

Scripture

  • John 4:5

    Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

  • John 4:6

    Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.

  • John 4:7

    There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

  • John 4:8

    (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)

  • John 4:9

    Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.

  • John 4:10

    Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

  • John 4:11

    The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?

  • John 4:12

    Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?

  • John 4:13

    Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:

  • John 4:14

    But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.

  • John 4:15

    The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.

  • John 4:16

    Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.

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