John 4:6

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Jacob’s well was there, so Jesus, since he was tired from the journey, sat right down beside the well. It was about noon.

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  • Matt 4:2 : 2 After he fasted forty days and forty nights he was famished.
  • Matt 8:24 : 24 And a great storm developed on the sea so that the waves began to swamp the boat. But he was asleep.
  • Matt 27:45 : 45 Jesus’ Death Now from noon until three, darkness came over all the land.
  • Luke 2:7 : 7 And she gave birth to her firstborn son and wrapped him in strips of cloth and laid him in a manger, because there was no place for them in the inn.
  • Luke 9:58 : 58 Jesus said to him,“Foxes have dens and the birds in the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”
  • John 11:9 : 9 Jesus replied,“Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.
  • 2 Cor 8:9 : 9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that although he was rich, he became poor for your sakes, so that you by his poverty could become rich.
  • Heb 2:17 : 17 Therefore he had to be made like his brothers and sisters in every respect, so that he could become a merciful and faithful high priest in things relating to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.
  • Heb 4:15 : 15 For we do not have a high priest incapable of sympathizing with our weaknesses, but one who has been tempted in every way just as we are, yet without sin.

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  • John 4:7-17
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    7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her,“Give me some water to drink.”

    8 (For his disciples had gone off into the town to buy supplies.)

    9 So the Samaritan woman said to him,“How can you– a Jew– ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water to drink?”(For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)

    10 Jesus answered her,“If you had known the gift of God and who it is who said to you,‘Give me some water to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

    11 “Sir,” the woman said to him,“you have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do you get this living water?

    12 Surely you’re not greater than our ancestor Jacob, are you? For he gave us this well and drank from it himself, along with his sons and his livestock.”

    13 Jesus replied,“Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty again.

    14 But whoever drinks some of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.”

    15 The woman said to him,“Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”

    16 He said to her,“Go call your husband and come back here.”

    17 The woman replied,“I have no husband.” Jesus said to her,“Right you are when you said,‘I have no husband,’

  • John 4:4-5
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    4 Conversation With a Samaritan Woman But he had to pass through Samaria.

    5 Now he came to a Samaritan town called Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

  • John 4:25-29
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    25 The woman said to him,“I know that Messiah is coming”(the one called Christ);“whenever he comes, he will tell us everything.”

    26 Jesus said to her,“I, the one speaking to you, am he.”

    27 The Disciples Return Now at that very moment his disciples came back. They were shocked because he was speaking with a woman. However, no one said,“What do you want?” or“Why are you speaking with her?”

    28 Then the woman left her water jar, went off into the town and said to the people,

    29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can’t be the Messiah, can he?”

  • John 4:39-40
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    39 The Samaritans Respond Now many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the report of the woman who testified,“He told me everything I ever did.”

    40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they began asking him to stay with them. He stayed there two days,

  • John 2:6-7
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    6 Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

    7 Jesus told the servants,“Fill the water jars with water.” So they filled them up to the very top.

  • 37 Teaching About the Spirit On the last day of the feast, the greatest day, Jesus stood up and shouted out,“If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me, and

  • 11 He made the camels kneel down by the well outside the city. It was evening, the time when the women would go out to draw water.

  • 19 The woman said to him,“Sir, I see that you are a prophet.

  • 4 Jesus replied,“Woman, why are you saying this to me? My time has not yet come.”

  • 43 Here I am, standing by the spring. When the young woman goes out to draw water, I’ll say,“Please give me a little water to drink from your jug.”

  • 21 Jesus said to her,“Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

  • 39 Jesus answered,“Come and you will see.” So they came and saw where he was staying, and they stayed with him that day. Now it was about four o’clock in the afternoon.

  • 22 Further Testimony About Jesus by John the Baptist After this, Jesus and his disciples came into Judean territory, and there he spent time with them and was baptizing.

  • Gen 24:45-46
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    45 “Before I finished praying in my heart, along came Rebekah with her water jug on her shoulder! She went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her,‘Please give me a drink.’

    46 She quickly lowered her jug from her shoulder and said,‘Drink, and I’ll give your camels water too.’ So I drank, and she also gave the camels water.

  • 4 (Now the Jewish Feast of the Passover was near.)

  • 46 Healing the Royal Official’s Son Now he came again to Cana in Galilee where he had made the water wine. In Capernaum there was a certain royal official whose son was sick.

  • 35 When it was already late, his disciples came to him and said,“This is an isolated place and it is already very late.

  • 5 So they went. When he went out again about noon and three o’clock that afternoon, he did the same thing.

  • 17 Speaking with Martha and Mary When Jesus arrived, he found that Lazarus had been in the tomb four days already.

  • 1 The Feeding of the Five Thousand After this Jesus went away to the other side of the Sea of Galilee(also called the Sea of Tiberias).

  • Gen 24:18-20
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    18 “Drink, my lord,” she replied, and quickly lowering her jug to her hands, she gave him a drink.

    19 When she had done so, she said,“I’ll draw water for your camels too, until they have drunk as much as they want.”

    20 She quickly emptied her jug into the watering trough and ran back to the well to draw more water until she had drawn enough for all his camels.

  • 32 That day Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug.“We’ve found water,” they reported.

  • 10 When Jacob saw Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Laban, and the sheep of his uncle Laban, he went over and rolled the stone off the mouth of the well and watered the sheep of his uncle Laban.

  • 43 Onward to Galilee After the two days he departed from there to Galilee.

  • 13 Here I am, standing by the spring, and the daughters of the people who live in the town are coming out to draw water.

  • 19 When Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and discovered a well with fresh flowing water there,

  • 28 Jesus’ Death After this Jesus, realizing that by this time everything was completed, said(in order to fulfill the scripture),“I am thirsty!”

  • 2 He saw in the field a well with three flocks of sheep lying beside it, because the flocks were watered from that well. Now a large stone covered the mouth of the well.

  • 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him,“Do you want to become well?”

  • 54 Jesus did this as his second miraculous sign when he returned from Judea to Galilee.