John 4: Living Water

Tired from travel, Jesus asks a Samaritan woman at a well for a drink. He offers her living water that leads to eternal life and reveals that He is the Messiah. She tells her town, and many Samaritans believe. Back in Galilee, Jesus heals a royal official's son with a word.

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¹ Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than JohnThis verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
² (although Jesus himself didn’t baptize, but his disciples),This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³ he left Judea and departed into Galilee.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴ He needed to pass through Samaria.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁵ So he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁶ Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁷ A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁸ For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁹ The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁰ Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹¹ The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹² Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹³ Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁴ but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁵ The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁶ Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁷ The woman answered, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁸ for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
¹⁹ The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁰ Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²¹ Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²² You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²³ But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁴ God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁵ The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming, he who is called Christ. When he has come, he will declare to us all things.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁶ Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁷ Just then, his disciples came. They marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁸ So the woman left her water pot, went away into the city, and said to the people,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
²⁹ “Come, see a man who told me everything that I have done. Can this be the Christ?”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁰ They went out of the city, and were coming to him.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³¹ In the meanwhile, the disciples urged him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³² But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you don’t know about.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³³ The disciples therefore said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁴ Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁵ Don’t you say, ‘There are yet four months until the harvest’? Behold, I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, that they are white for harvest already.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁶ He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁷ For in this the saying is true, ‘One sows, and another reaps.’This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁸ I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
³⁹ From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I have done.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴⁰ So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴¹ Many more believed because of his word.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴² They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴³ After the two days he went out from there and went into Galilee.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴⁴ For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his own country.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴⁵ So when he came into Galilee, the Galileans received him, having seen all the things that he did in Jerusalem at the feast, for they also went to the feast.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴⁶ Jesus came therefore again to Cana of Galilee, where he made the water into wine. There was a certain nobleman whose son was sick at Capernaum.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴⁷ When he heard that Jesus had come out of Judea into Galilee, he went to him and begged him that he would come down and heal his son, for he was at the point of death.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴⁸ Jesus therefore said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will in no way believe.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁴⁹ The nobleman said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁵⁰ Jesus said to him, “Go your way. Your son lives.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and he went his way.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁵¹ As he was going down, his servants met him and reported, saying “Your child lives!”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁵² So he inquired of them the hour when he began to get better. They said therefore to him, “Yesterday at the seventh hour, the fever left him.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁵³ So the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.” He believed, as did his whole house.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
⁵⁴ This is again the second sign that Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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John 4 · Preschool

Jesus at the Well

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Color the picture. Point to the well and the water jar.

Can you find these in the picture? Circle each one!

Bible Verse

Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.”

John 4:26 (WEB)

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Thank You, God, for making me!

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John 4 · Grade 4

The Savior of the World

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Read and Think

Jesus chose to travel through Samaria, though many Jews avoided it. At noon, tired, He sat by Jacob's well. A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus broke three customs at once. He spoke with a woman, He spoke with a Samaritan, and He asked to drink from her jar. She was shocked.

Jesus offered her living water, which only God can give. She thought He meant water from the well. Jesus gently showed her that He knew her past, including her five husbands. She changed the subject to where people should worship. Jesus said the place does not matter most. God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth. When she spoke of the coming Messiah, Jesus told her that He is the Messiah.

She left her water jar and called her town to come and see. The disciples returned with food, but Jesus said His food was doing His Father's will. He said the fields were ready for harvest. Many Samaritans believed. Later, Jesus healed an official's son from far away, just by speaking.

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What three customs did Jesus break by talking with the woman?
What did Jesus say about where to worship?
What did Jesus say His food was?
How did Jesus heal the official's son?

Word Bank Fill-In

Use the word bank to fill in each blank.

waterworshipjarwellliving

A Samaritan woman came to draw .
He spoke with a woman, He spoke with a Samaritan, and He asked to drink from her .
Jesus offered her water, which only God can give.
She thought He meant water from the .
She changed the subject to where people should .

Think About It

Jesus talked kindly with someone others avoided. Who might God want you to be kind to at home, at church, or with friends?
What does it mean to worship God in spirit and truth?

Memory Verse

Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.”

John 4:26 (WEB)

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Prayer

Dear God, thank You for this Bible story. Help me to . Amen.

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How can you show kindness to people who are different from you?
The woman ran to tell her town about Jesus. What would you tell others?
Jesus said the fields were ready for harvest. Who around you might be ready to hear about Jesus?

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Worship in Spirit and Truth

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John 4 shows Jesus crossing walls that divided people. Jews and Samaritans had been enemies for centuries over worship and history. Jesus, weary and thirsty, waited at Jacob's well at noon. A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus asked her for a drink, and she was astonished. Jesus was showing that His love reaches across every barrier.

He offered her living water. The water He gives becomes a spring welling up to eternal life. Jesus lovingly exposed her sin by asking about her husband. He did not do it to shame her, but to show her that He knew her and still offered grace. When she raised the old argument about which mountain was right for worship, Jesus said a time was coming when the Father would be worshiped in spirit and truth. God is spirit, and He seeks true worshipers. Then He revealed Himself plainly, I am he, the one who speaks to you.

The woman now ran to tell the people of her town. She left her water jar and said, Come, see a man who told me everything that I have done. Many believed because of her word, and many more because of His. They confessed that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world. Back in Cana, a royal official begged Jesus to come heal his dying son. Jesus said, Go your way. Your son lives. The man believed the word Jesus spoke and went home. His son had recovered at the very hour Jesus spoke.

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What did Jesus ask the woman for at the well?
Why did Jesus ask the woman about her husband?
What does God seek, according to Jesus?
How did the woman change after meeting Jesus?
How did the official show faith?

Crossword

Across

Jesus sat by it, tired from walking.
The townspeople said Jesus is the ____ of the world.
Jesus asked the woman for one.

Down

The woman at the well was one.
Jesus offered ____ water.
The woman left her water ____ behind.

Think About It

Jesus knew everything about the woman and still loved her. How does it feel to know Jesus knows you completely and loves you?
The woman told her whole town. What could you tell someone about what Jesus has done?

Memory Verse

but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.”

John 4:14 (WEB)

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Prayer

Dear God, thank You for this Bible story. Help me to . Amen.

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Jesus talked with someone others avoided. How can you show kindness to people who are different from you?
What would you tell others about Jesus?
Jesus said the fields are ready for harvest. Who around you might be ready to hear about Jesus?

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