The Woman at the Well

The words

1. Dealings

   John’s KJV text says Jews have “no dealings” with Samaritans; the NET reads “use nothing in common,” as the woman questions Jesus’s request for a drink.

   John 4:7–9 (opens a new tab) · NET Bible: John 4:1-15 (opens a new tab)

2. Draw

   John says the woman comes to draw water; Jesus asks her for a drink, and she later points out that he has nothing to draw with.

   John 4:7; John 4:11 (opens a new tab)

3. Drinketh

   Drinks; an older verb form.

   John gives Jesus’s contrast between drinking the well’s water and drinking the water he offers, connecting the latter with a well springing into everlasting life.

   John 4:13–14 (opens a new tab) · NET Bible: John 4:1-15 (opens a new tab)

4. Four Months

   John records Jesus asking about the saying “four months, and then cometh harvest,” before telling the disciples to look at fields already ready for harvest.

   John 4:35 (opens a new tab)

5. Gift of God

   John records Jesus telling the woman that knowing God’s gift and who is asking for a drink would lead her to ask him for living water.

   John 4:10 (opens a new tab)

6. Harvest

   In John’s account, Jesus links reaping with gathering fruit for eternal life and describes sower and reaper rejoicing together, then speaks of entering work others have already done.

   Did you know?

   John later describes Samaritans asking Jesus to stay; he remains for two days, and people say they have heard him for themselves.

   John 4:35–38; John 4:40–42 (opens a new tab)

7. Jacob's Well

   John places Jacob’s well near Sychar and the parcel associated with Joseph; Jesus sits there weary from travel, and the woman recalls Jacob’s use of the well.

   John 4:5–6; John 4:12 (opens a new tab)

8. Parcel

   John locates Sychar near a parcel of ground Jacob gave to his son Joseph, before introducing Jacob’s well and Jesus sitting there after his journey.

   Did you know?

   Genesis 33:19 also uses “parcel of a field” when Jacob buys land from Hamor’s children for “an hundred pieces of money.”

   John 4:5–6 (opens a new tab) · Genesis 33:18–19 (opens a new tab)

9. Samaria

   John describes Jesus leaving Judaea for Galilee and going through Samaria; the well conversation takes place near the Samaritan city he calls Sychar.

   John 4:3–7 (opens a new tab)

10. Sixth Hour

    John says it was “about the sixth hour” when Jesus, weary from the journey, sat at the well; the woman then comes to draw water.

    John 4:6–7 (opens a new tab)

11. Springing

    Rising or leaping up.

    John records Jesus describing his offered water as becoming a well within the recipient, “springing up into everlasting life,” after his contrast with ordinary well water.

    John 4:13–14 (opens a new tab) · NET Bible: John 4:1-15 (opens a new tab)

12. Sychar

    John names Sychar as a city of Samaria near the parcel Jacob gave Joseph, before introducing the well, Jesus’s rest and the woman’s arrival.

    John 4:5–7 (opens a new tab)

13. Thirst

    John contrasts Jesus’s words about thirst returning after well water with his promise about the water he gives; the woman then asks for that water.

    John 4:13–15 (opens a new tab)

14. Wearied

    Tired from the journey.

    John describes Jesus as wearied by the journey when he sits at Jacob’s well; his disciples have gone to the city to buy food.

    John 4:6–8 (opens a new tab) · NET Bible: John 4:1-15 (opens a new tab)

15. Worshippers

    John records Jesus saying the Father seeks people who worship him “in spirit and in truth,” after the woman mentions worship on the mountain and in Jerusalem.

    John 4:20–24 (opens a new tab)