John 4:11

John 4:11

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,

14 but ^awhoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him ^bwill become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Sir (Kurie). So it has to mean here in the mouth of the Samaritan woman, not Lord.

Thou hast nothing to draw with and the well is deep (oute antlhma exeiv kai to frear estin baqu). This broken construction of oute-kai (neither—and) occurs in N.T. elsewhere only in III John 1:10. Antlhma (from antlew, to draw) is a late word for that which is drawn, then (Plutarch) for the act of drawing, and then for the rope as here to draw with. This well (frear) is 100 feet deep and Jesus had no rope. The bucket of skin ("with three cross sticks at the mouth to keep it open," Vincent) was kept at the well to be let down by a goat's hair rope.

That living water (to udwr to zwn). "The water the living," with the article referring to the language of Jesus in verse John 4:10. She is still thinking only of literal water.

**Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 4:11:**

John 1:38
John 4:6
John 4:15
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