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On The Way, Jesus Stops At a Well In Samaria

So He comes into a city of Samaria being called Sychar, near the place which Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now a spring of Jacob was there. So Jesus, having become weary from the journey, was sitting thus[a] at the spring. The hour was about the sixth[b].

He Talks With a Woman At The Well, And Tells Her He Is The Awaited Messiah

A woman of Samaria comes to draw water. Jesus says to her, “Give Me water to drink”.

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Footnotes

  1. John 4:6 That is, wearied.
  2. John 4:6 That is, noon Jewish time; or, 6 p.m. Roman time.

So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.(A) Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.

When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?”(B)

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