004:001 Now as soon as the Master was aware that the Pharisees had heard it said, "Jesus is gaining and baptizing more disciples than John"-- 004:002 though Jesus Himself did not baptize them, but His disciples did-- 004:003 He left Judaea and returned to Galilee. 004:004 His road lay through Samaria, 004:005 and so He came to Sychar, a town in Samaria near the piece of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 004:006 Jacob's Well was there: and accordingly Jesus, tired out with His journey, sat down by the well to rest. It was about six o'clock in the evening. 004:007 Presently there came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus asked her to give Him some water; 004:008 for His disciples were gone to the town to buy provisions. 004:009 "How is it," replied the woman, "that a Jew like you asks me, who am a woman and a Samaritan, for water?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) 004:010 "If you had known God's free gift," replied Jesus, "and who it is that said to you, `Give me some water,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water." 004:011 "Sir," she said, "you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep; so where can you get the living water from? 004:012 Are you greater than our forefather Jacob, who gave us the well, and himself drank from it, as did also his sons and his cattle?" 004:013 "Every one," replied Jesus, "who drinks any of this water will be thirsty again; 004:014 but whoever drinks any of the water that I shall give him will never, never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become a fountain within him of water springing up for the Life of the Ages." 004:015 "Sir," said the woman, "give me that water, that I may never be thirsty, nor continually come all the way here to draw from the well." 004:016 "Go and call your husband," said Jesus; "and come back." 004:017 "I have no husband," she replied. "You rightly say that you have no husband," said Jesus; 004:018 "for you have had five husbands, and the man you have at present is not your husband. You have spoken the truth in saying that." 004:019 "Sir," replied the woman, "I see that you are a Prophet. 004:020 Our forefathers worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem." 004:021 "Believe me," said Jesus, "the time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 004:022 You worship One of whom you know nothing. We worship One whom we know; for salvation comes from the Jews. 004:023 But a time is coming--nay, has already come--when the true worshippers will worship the Father with true spiritual worship; for indeed the Father desires such worshippers.