John 4:13

Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks this water will thirst again,

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

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

In Context

12Are yoʋ greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and livestock?”

14but whoever drinks the water I give him will certainly never thirst again. On the contrary, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

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Cross References

Luke 16:24So he called out and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am in agony in these flames.’

John 6:49Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and died.

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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