John 4:7

Mace New Testament

where a woman of Samaria being come to draw water, Jesus said to her, give me to drink.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
A woman of Samaria came to draw water.

King James Version (1611)
There commeth a woman of Samaria to draw water: Iesus sayth vnto her, Giue me to drinke.

King James Version
There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

English Standard Version
A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

New American Standard Bible
A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink."

New Century Version
When a Samaritan woman came to the well to get some water, Jesus said to her, "Please give me a drink."

Amplified Bible
Then a woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink"—

New American Standard Bible (1995)
There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink."

Legacy Standard Bible
A woman of Samaria *came to draw water. Jesus *said to her, "Give Me a drink."

Berean Standard Bible
When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink."

Complete Jewish Bible
A woman from Shomron came to draw some water; and Yeshua said to her, "Give me a drink of water."

Darby Translation
A woman comes out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus says to her, Give me to drink

Easy-to-Read Version
A Samaritan woman came to the well to get some water, and Jesus said to her, "Please give me a drink."

Geneva Bible (1587)
There came a woman of Samaria to drawe water. Iesus sayd vnto her, Giue me drinke.

George Lamsa Translation
And there came a woman from Samaria to draw water; and Jesus said to her, Give me water to drink.

Good News Translation
A Samaritan woman came to draw some water, and Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink of water."

Lexham English Bible
A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me water to drink."

Literal Translation
A woman came out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, Give Me some to drink.

American Standard Version
There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

Bible in Basic English
A woman of Samaria came to get water, and Jesus said to her, Give me some water.

Hebrew Names Version
A woman of Shomron came to draw water. Yeshua said to her, "Give me a drink."

International Standard Version
A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, "Please give me a drink."

Etheridge Translation
There came a woman from Shomreen to draw waters, and Jeshu said to her, Give me waters to drink.

Murdock Translation
And a woman from Samaria came to draw water. And Jesus said to her: Give me water to drink.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And there came a woman of Samaria to drawe water: Iesus sayth vnto her, geue me drynke.

English Revised Version
There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.

World English Bible
A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith to her, Give me to drink.

Weymouth's New Testament
Presently there came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus asked her to give Him some water;

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And a womman cam fro Samarie, to drawe watir. And Jhesus seith to hir, Yyue me drynk.

Update Bible Version
There comes a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus says to her, Give me to drink.

Webster's Bible Translation
There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith to her, Give me to drink.

New English Translation
A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me some water to drink."

New King James Version
A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink."

New Living Translation
Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, "Please give me a drink."

New Life Bible
A woman of Samaria came to get water. Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink."

New Revised Standard
A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith unto her - Give me to drink!

Douay-Rheims Bible
There cometh a woman of Samaria, to draw water. Jesus saith to her: Give me to drink.

Revised Standard Version
There came a woman of Samar'ia to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and there came a woman of Samaria to drawe water. And Iesus sayde vnto her: geve me drynke.

Young's Literal Translation
there cometh a woman out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus saith to her, `Give me to drink;'

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then came there a woman of Samaria to drawe water. Iesus sayde vnto her: Geue me drynke.

THE MESSAGE
A woman, a Samaritan, came to draw water. Jesus said, "Would you give me a drink of water?" (His disciples had gone to the village to buy food for lunch.)

Simplified Cowboy Version
About this time, a Samaritan woman came by to get some water and Jesus asked her, "Would you fetch me a drink, ma'am?"

Contextual Overview

⁴ but being obliged to pass through Samaria, ⁵ he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the piece of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. ⁶ now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey, sat him down by the well: it being about the sixth hour. ⁷ where a woman of Samaria being come to draw water, Jesus said to her, give me to drink. ⁸ for his disciples were gone away to the city to buy provisions. ⁹ but the woman of Samaria said to him, how is it that you who are a Jew, ask drink of me, who am a Samaritan? (for the Jews have no friendly intercourse with the Samaritans.) ¹⁰ Jesus answered her, if you knew the dispensation of God, and who it is that says to you, give me to drink; you would have asked of him, and he would have given you living water. ¹¹ sir, said the woman, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then can you get that living water? ¹² are you wiser than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, as well as his children, and cattle? ¹³ Jesus answered her, they that drink of this water, will be thirsty again:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Give: John 4:10, John 19:28, Genesis 24:43, 2 Samuel 23:15-17, 1 Kings 17:10, Matthew 10:42

Reciprocal: Genesis 24:11 - women go out to draw water Genesis 24:13 - daughters Genesis 24:17 - Let Judges 4:19 - Give me Ruth 2:9 - go Mark 11:12 - he was Luke 19:5 - he looked John 4:28 - General

Cross-References

Acts 10:35
but in every nation, he that feareth him, and acts justly, is acceptable to him.

Romans 6:16
by no means. know ye not, that to whom ye subject your selves vassals at command, his vassals you are whom you thus obey; the vassals either of sin to destruction, or of obedience to justification?

Romans 12:1
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God to you, that you present your bodies a living victim, holy, acceptable unto God, as the service of a rational being.

Romans 14:18
for he that thus pays his allegiance to Christ, is acceptable to God, and approved of men.

Romans 15:16
to be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, officiating the gospel of God, that the Gentiles might be made an acceptable offering, being sanctified by the holy spirit.

Ephesians 1:6
to display the glory of his grace, which has render'd us acceptable by his beloved son:

1 Timothy 5:4
if a widow has children or grand-children, let them above all things instruct their own family to be religious, and let them be grateful to their parents, for this is acceptable to God.

Hebrews 11:4
'Twas by faith that Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he was declared righteous, God himself having testified that he accepted his offering, and after he died for his faith, he was not silent.

James 1:15
and the genuine offspring of sin is death.

1 Peter 2:5
you your selves are as so many living stones, you are the edifice, the spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, agreeable to God by Jesus Christ.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

There cometh a woman of Samaria,.... Or "out of Samaria"; not out of the city of Samaria, but out of the country of Samaria; out of Sychar, a city of Samaria: her coming was not by chance, but by the providence of God, and agreeably to his purpose, who orders all things according to the counsel of his will; and it is an amazing instance of grace, that a woman, a Samaritan woman, a lewd and infamous one, should be a chosen vessel of salvation, should be the object of divine favour, and be effectually called by the grace of God; when so many wise, learned, and religious men in Judea, were passed by; and not only so, but she was the happy means of conveying the knowledge of the Saviour to many of her neighbours: she came, indeed,

to draw water; for her present temporal use and service; she little thought of meeting at Jacob's well, with Christ the fountain of gardens, and well of living water; she came for natural water, having no notion of water in a spiritual sense: or of carrying back with her the water of life, even a well of it, springing up to everlasting life:

Jesus saith unto her, give me to drink; that is, water to drink, out of the pot or pitcher, she brought with her, for he was athirst; which is another proof of the truth of his human nature, and of his taking it, with the sinless infirmities of it: though indeed this request was made, to introduce a discourse with the woman, he having a more violent thirst, and a stronger desire, after the welfare of her immortal soul.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Of Samaria - Not of the “city” of Samaria, for this was at a distance of 8 miles, but a woman who was a Samaritan, and doubtless from the city of Sychar.

Give me to drink - This was in the heat of the day, and when Jesus was weary with his journey. The request was also made that it might give him occasion to discourse with her on the subject of religion, and in this instance we have a specimen of the remarkably happy manner in which he could lead on a conversation so as to introduce the subject of religion.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse John 4:7. There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water — That this was the employment of the females, we see in different parts of the Sacred Writings. See Genesis 24:11, c. Exodus 2:16, and the note at the end of that chapter. The Jews say that those who wished to get wives went to the wells where young women were accustomed to come and draw water; and it is supposed that women of ill fame frequented such places also. See several proofs in Schoettgen.