John 4:13

Jesus said to her, Everyone who takes this water will be in need of it again:

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In The King James Version

Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:

In Context

12Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the fountain and took the water of it himself, with his children and his cattle?

14But whoever takes the water I give him will never be in need of drink again; for the water I give him will become in him a fountain of eternal life.

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Cross References

Luke 16:24And he gave a cry and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may put the end of his finger in water and put it on my tongue, for I am cruelly burning in this flame.

John 6:49Your fathers took the manna in the waste land--and they are dead.

Matthew Henry on John 4:5-27

Christ at the Well of Samaria. 4 And he must needs go through Samaria. 5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour. 7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. 8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) 9 Then saith the woman of Samaria… Read the whole commentary →

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