Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift 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 living water.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
John 4:10 in context
John 4:7–13
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A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”
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For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
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The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
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Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift 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 living water.”
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The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water?
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Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?”
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Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,
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