Samaritan woman at the well
ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ Ὕδωρ λαβεῖν ἐλθοῦσα τὸ φθαρτὸν γύναι, Τὸ ζῶν ἀπαντλεῖς, ᾧ ῥύπους ψυχῆς πλύνεις. The Samaritan woman at the well is a figure from the Gospel of John. John 4:4–42 relates her conversation with Jesus at Jacob's Well near the city of Sychar Biblical account. The woman appears in NRSV: Now when the Lord knew that the pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed to Galilee. He had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sy'char, near the field that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there, and so Jesus, wearied as he was with his journey, sat down beside the well. It was about the sixth hour. A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink ...