#religion/christianity  The scripture of Jesus and the Outcast Woman at the Well can be found in the Gospel of John, Chapter 4, verses 4-42. > [!bible]- [John 4:4-42 - NIV](https://bolls.life/NIV/43/4/) > 4. Now he had to go through Samaria. > 5. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. > 6. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. > 7. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” > 8. (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) > 9. The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) > 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.” > 11. “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? > 12. Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?” > 13. Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, > 14. but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” > 15. The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.” > 16. He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.” > 17. “I have no husband,” she replied.<br/>Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. > 18. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.” > 19. “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. > 20. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.” > 21. Jesus declared, “Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. > 22. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. > 23. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. > 24. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.” > 25. The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.” > 26. Then Jesus declared, “I who speak to you am he.” > 27. The Disciples Rejoin Jesus<br/>Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?” > 28. Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, > 29. “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” > 30. They came out of the town and made their way toward him. > 31. Meanwhile his disciples urged him, “Rabbi, eat something.” > 32. But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.” > 33. Then his disciples said to each other, “Could someone have brought him food?” > 34. “My food,” said Jesus, “is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. > 35. Do you not say, ‘Four months more and then the harvest’? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. > 36. Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. > 37. Thus the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. > 38. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.” > 39. Many Samaritans Believe<br/>Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.” > 40. So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. > 41. And because of his words many more became believers. > 42. They said to the woman, “We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”