John 4:10

+ 4:10 (+15) MPr: Implying the Messiah will cause a fountain to miraculously to spring up, just as Moses did in the wilderness (Joel 3:18c in Midrash Eccl 1:9). (Joel 3:18c) Yeshua [Salvation] answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

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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

9The Samaritan [person from Watch-mountain] woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew [Praiser], ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan [person from Watch-mountain] woman?” (For Jews [Praisers] have no dealings with Samaritans [people from Watch-mountain].)

11The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water?

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Cross References

Psalms 10:17ת Adonai, you have sh'ma ·heard obeyed· the desire of the humble. 2 You will prepare their heart. 2 You will cause your ear to hear, 2

Psalms 46:4There is a river, the streams of which make the city of God glad, 2 the holy place of the tents of haElyon [the Most High]. 1

Isaiah 12:3Therefore with joy you will draw water out of the wells + 12:3. Quoted in John 7:38 of yishu'ah ·salvation·.

Isaiah 41:17The poor and needy seek water, and there is none. 2 Their tongue fails for thirst. 1 I, Adonai, will answer them. 2 I, the God of Israel [God prevails], will not forsake them. 1

Isaiah 43:20The animals of the field shall honor me, 2 the jackals and the ostriches; 1 because I give water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert, 2 to give drink to my people, my chosen, 2

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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