While travelling through Samaria, Jesus met a Samaritan woman at the well in Shechem, when she came to draw water. His encounter with this woman is described in John 4:4–42.
When Jesus asked her to give Him a drink, she replied: “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) Jesus answered: “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink’, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water” (verses 9-10). Jesus then told her that true worshipers would “worship the Father in spirit and in truth…(verse 24).”
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