Jesus answered her, “If
you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would
have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
“Sir,” the woman said,
“you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you
get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who
gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his flocks
and herds?”
Jesus answered, “Everyone
who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water
I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become
in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
