Mk. 4, 14;

Lux. 4, 1-3.

After John was given into custody, the Lord Jesus, hearing of this, and also learning of the rumor that had reached the Pharisees, that He was gaining disciples and baptizing more than John, although the Lord Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples, left Judea and went back to Galilee.

30. The sojourn in Samaria.

In. 4, 4-43.

It behooved the Lord Jesus to pass through Samaria. He came to the city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the piece of land given by Jacob to his son Joseph. There was the well of Jacob. The Lord Jesus, having labored from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about six o'clock.

A woman comes from Samaria to draw water. The Lord Jesus said to her, "Give me something to drink" (and His disciples went out into the city to buy food).

The Samaritan woman said to Him, "How is it that You, being a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, to drink? for the Jews have no fellowship with the Samaritans.

The Lord Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, and Who says to you, 'Give me a drink,' then you yourself would ask Him, and He would give you living water.'

The woman said to Him, "Lord! Thou hast nothing with which to draw, and the well is deep: whence hast thou living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well, and drank from it, and his children, and his cattle?

The Lord Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never thirst. but the water that I give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into eternal life.

The woman said to Him, "Lord! Give me this water, that I may not be thirsty, and that I may not come hither to draw.

The Lord Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband and come hither."

The woman answered: I have no husband.