10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you had known the gift of God and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me water[a] to drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 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,[b] who gave us the well and drank from it himself, and his sons and his livestock?”

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Footnotes

  1. John 4:10 Here “water” is supplied in the translation as the understood direct object of the verb “give”
  2. John 4:12 *The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated by the supplied phrase “are you” in the translation

10 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.”(A)

11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well(B) and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”

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