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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.”  
15 aThe woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw.”  
16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.”
17 The woman answered and said, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You have well said, ‘I have no husband,’
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John 4:14

That I shall give him (ou egw dwsw autw). Relative ou attracted to the case (genitive) of the antecedent (udatov). Future active indicative of didwmi.

Shall never thirst (ou mh diyhsei eiv ton aiona). The double negative ou mh is used with either the future indicative as here or the aorist subjunctive, the strongest possible negative. See both constructions (ou mh peinash and ou me diyhsei) in John 6:35. Jesus has not answered the woman's question save by the necessary implication here that he is superior to Jacob.

A well of water springing up unto eternal life (phgh udatov allomenou eiv zwhn aiwnion). "Spring (or fountain) of water leaping (bubbling up) unto life eternal." Present middle participle of allomai, old verb, in N.T. only here and Acts 3:8; Acts 14:10. The woman's curiosity is keenly excited about this new kind of water.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 4:14:

John 4:6
John 4:13
John 4:36
John 7:38
John 14:16
James 3:11
Revelation 7:17
Revelation 22:1

 

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