John 4:10

Jesus answered and said to her, “If you had known the gift of God, and who it is that is saying 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

9Then the Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, are asking me, being a Samaritan woman, for something to drink?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

11The woman said to him, “Sir, you do not have a bucket and the well is deep. Where then do you have the living water?

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Cross References

2 Chronicles 33:12When Manasseh was in distress, he implored Yahweh, his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his ancestors.

Psalms 10:17Yahweh, you have heard the needs of the oppressed; 1 you strengthen their heart, you listen to their prayer; 1

Psalms 46:4There is a river whose streams make the city of God happy, 1 the holy place where the Most High dwells. 1

Isaiah 12:3With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. 1

Isaiah 41:17The oppressed and needy look for water, but there is none, and their tongues are parched for thirst; 1 I, Yahweh, will respond to their prayers; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. 1

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