The woman at the well in Samaria
On his way to Galilee, Jesus rested at Jacob's well near Sychar and asked a Samaritan woman for a drink. He offered her living water and revealed that he was the Messiah; many in her town believed.
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 (World English Bible)
Jews and Samaritans avoided each other, and a respected rabbi would not normally speak with a woman alone, let alone one whose life had been as troubled as hers. Jesus knew all about her five husbands, and she ran to tell her town. After hearing him for themselves, the Samaritans said he was “the Savior of the world” (John 4:42).
When she raised the old dispute over the temple on Mount Gerizim, Jesus answered that true worshipers would worship the Father in spirit and truth (John 4:20–24).
Places
GalileeJudeaSamariaMount GerizimSychar
Dating notes
Ussher: late AD 30. Jesus' remark that there were “yet four months until the harvest” (John 4:35) points to December or January, after about eight months in Judea. The month shown is estimated from the order of events in Ussher's harmony, so that events of the same year appear in sequence.