John 4:13

13 Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again.

John 4:13 Meaning and Commentary

John 4:13

Jesus answered and said unto her
In a mild and gentle manner, patiently bearing all her scoffs and flouts, and continuing to instruct and inform her, concerning this living water, showing the preferableness of it to all others:

whosoever drinketh of this water;
meaning in that well called Jacob's well, or any other common water:

shall thirst again;
as this woman had often done, and would again, as she herself knew, ( John 4:15 ) , and as Jesus did, who very likely afterwards drank of it, ( John 19:28 ) . For though water allays heat, quenches thirst, and refreshes and revives the spirits for a while, yet in process of time, natural heat increases, and thirst returns, and there is a necessity of drinking water again.

John 4:13 In-Context

11 The woman said to him, "Sir, you have no bucket and the well is deep! From where then do you get this living water?

12 You are not greater than our father Jacob, [are you], who gave us the well and drank from it himself, and his sons and his livestock?"

13 Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again.

14 But whoever drinks of this water which I will give to him will never be thirsty for eternity, but the water which I will give to him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life."

15 The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or come here to draw [water]!"