Jesus answered and said unto her,.... In a mild and gentle manner, patiently bearing all her scoffs and flouts, and continuing to instruct and inform her, concerning this living water, showing the preferableness of it to all others:whosoever drinketh of this water; meaning in that well called Jacob's well, or any other common water:shall thirst again; as this woman had often done, and would again, as she herself knew, Joh 4:15, and as Jesus did, who very likely afterwards drank of it, Joh 19:28.
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John 4:13
John 4:13
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