John 4:10

In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to her, If you knew the matanah (gift) of Hashem and who it is saying to you, Give me a drink, + 4:10 Gn 26:19 you would have asked him and he would have given you Mayim Chayyim (Living Water). + 4:10 Isa 44:3; 55:1; Jer 2:13; 17:13; Zech 14:8

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

In Context

9Therefore, the isha of Shomron says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, How can you, being a Yehudi, ask to be given a drink from me, an isha (woman) from Shomron (Samaria)? (For those who are Yehudim do not associate with those of Shomron). + 4:9 Ezra 4:3-6; 9:1—10:44

11The isha (woman) says to Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, Adoni, you have no bucket and the be'er is deep. From where then do you have the Mayim Chayyim? + 4:11 Gn 21:19

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:12And when he was in distress, he besought Hashem Elohav, and humbled himself greatly before Elohei Avotav,

Psalms 10:17Hashem, Thou hast heard the desire of the aniyim; 1 Thou wilt strengthen their lev, Thou wilt cause Thine ear to hear; 1

Psalms 46:4Though the mayim thereof roar and be troubled, 1 though the harim shake with the surging thereof. 1 Selah 1

Isaiah 12:3Therefore with sasson shall ye draw mayim out of the wells of Yeshu'ah (Salvation).

Isaiah 41:17When the aniyim and evyonim seek mayim, and there is none, 1 and their leshon faileth for tzama (thirst), 1 I Hashem will hear them, 1 I the Elohei Yisroel will not forsake them. 1

Isaiah 43:20The animal of the wild shall honor Me, 1 the jackals and the ostriches; 1 because I give mayim in the midbar, 1 and neharot in the desert, 1 to give drink to My People, My Bachir. 1

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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