John 4 Bible study: Living water

Jesus "left Judea and departed into Galilee" (4:3), and John says, "He needed to pass through Samaria" (4:4). He doesn't say why. "So he came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph" (4:5). "Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour" (4:6) (tap well). "A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”" (4:7). She answers with a question: "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" (4:9), and John adds in his own words, "For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans" (4:9). Jesus answers, "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" (4:10) (tap gift). She says, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water?" (4:11), and "Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?" (4:12). Jesus answers, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again" (4:13), "but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life" (4:14). And she asks, "Sir, give me this water, so that I don’t get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw" (4:15). Here is what almost everyone misses: living in "living water" is the same Greek verb as lives at the end of the chapter, when Jesus says to the nobleman, "Go your way. Your son lives." (4:50) (tap living).

Genesis 33:19→leads toJohn 4:5-6

Jacob buys "the parcel of ground where he had spread his tent" at Shechem (33:19), and Joseph is later buried "in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor" (Joshua 24:32). John says Jesus came "near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph" and "sat down by the well" there (John 4:5-6), and there he told a woman of Samaria, "whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again" (John 4:14).

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Strong's: "to live (literally or figuratively)". Thayer: "to live, be among the living, be alive (not lifeless, not dead)". Jesus says to the woman, "he would have given you living water" (4:10), and she asks, "So where do you get that living water?" (4:11). Here is what almost everyone misses: it is the same verb at the end of the chapter, when Jesus says to the nobleman, "Go your way. Your son lives." (4:50), when his servants report, "Your child lives!" (4:51), and when "the father knew that it was at that hour in which Jesus said to him, “Your son lives.”" (4:53). The chapter has it five times, and the WEB gives it as living and lives. John's Greek has it 18 times, counted in RP2018, the Byzantine text the WEB translates. The next time is in chapter 5: "those who hear will live" (5:25).