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Jesus answered her, `You do not know what God gives people. And you do not know who is asking you for a drink. If you knew him, then it is you who would have asked for a drink of water. He would give you living water.'

10 The woman said, `Sir, you have nothing to draw with. The well is deep. Where do you get that living water?

11 Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us this well? He drank water from this well, also his children and cattle.'

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The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan(A) woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.[a])

10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”(B)

11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water?

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Footnotes

  1. John 4:9 Or do not use dishes Samaritans have used