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(This happened while Jesus’ followers were in town buying some food.)

The woman said, “I am surprised that you ask me for a drink, since you are a Jewish man and I am a Samaritan woman.” (Jewish people are not friends with Samaritans.[a])

10 Jesus said, “If you only knew the free gift of God and who it is that is asking you for water, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

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Footnotes

  1. 4:9 Jewish people . . . Samaritans. This can also be translated “Jewish people don’t use things that Samaritans have used.”

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