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.