6Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.


In Context

3 When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.

4 Now he had to go through Samaria.

5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

6 Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?"

8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)

John 4:6 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:6Now Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with [his] journey, sat thus on the well: [and] it was about the sixth hour.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:6Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:6and Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:6Now a fountain of Jacob's was there; Jesus therefore, being wearied with the way he had come, sat just as he was at the fountain. It was about the sixth hour.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:6and Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:6Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:6Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:6and there was there a well of Jacob. Jesus therefore having been weary from the journeying, was sitting thus on the well; it was as it were the sixth hour;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:6Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.