8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
9 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For aJews have no dealings with bSamaritans.
10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the agift 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 bliving water.”
11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water?
12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again,
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
Commentaries:
No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for John 4:10.
John 4:10-11
In chapter 4 we find the woman at the well of Samaria and that her reaction was very similar to Nicodemus' in chapter 3. Both of them missed Jesus' meaning because they related what He said to physical circumstances. We find here, beginning in verse 10:
Just like Nicodemus, she missed His point entirely.
Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing John 4:10:
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