John 4:15 BSB — MannaFest

John 4:15

The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water so that I will not get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”

BSB

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ASV

The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come all the way hither to draw.

KJV

The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.

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Commentary

4 voices

Cyril of Alexandria

Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 2 (444)

Give me this water, that I thirst not neither come hither to draw. Jesus saith unto her, Again does she both speak and imagine only ordinary things, and of the things that were said understands no whit; but she supposes that in being released from petty toils, will consist all the aim of our Saviour, and to thirsting no more does she bound the measure of the grace of God, not so much as in bare idea receiving things above the world.

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The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

The woman saith unto him, Sir,.... See Gill on Joh 4:11; give me this water, that I thirst not. The Syriac and Persic versions add, "again": neither come hither; the Ethiopic version adds here, "again"; to draw.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

This woman's meeting with Christ at the well may remind us of the stories of Rebekah, Rachel, and Jethro's daughter, who all met with husbands, good husbands, no worse than Isaac, Jacob, and Moses, when they came to the wells for water. Thirdly, How the preventing grace of God sometimes brings people unexpectedly under the means of conversion and salvation.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Even those that are weak and ignorant may yet have some faint and fluctuating desires towards Christ and his gifts, and some good wishes of grace and glory. Carnal hearts, in their best wishes, look no higher than carnal ends. "Give it to me," saith she, "not that I may have everlasting life" (which Christ proposed), "but that I come not hither to draw. " 2.

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Λέγει	Legei	Says	G3004 →
πρὸς	pros	to	G4314 →
αὐτὸν	auton	Him	G846 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
γυνή·	gunē	woman;	G1135 →
κύριε,	kurie	Sir,	G2962 →
δός	dos	do give	G1325 →
μοι	moi	me	G3165 →
τοῦτο	touto	this	G3778 →
τὸ	to	<the>	G3588 →
ὕδωρ	hudōr	water	G5204 →
ἵνα	ina	that	G2443 →
μὴ	mē	not	G3361 →
διψῶ	dipsō	I may thirst	G1372 →
μηδὲ	mēde	nor	G3366 →
διέρχωμαι	dierchōmai	I may come	G1330 →
ἐνθάδε	enthade	here	G1759 →
ἀντλεῖν.	antlein	to draw.	G501 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Romans 6:23
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
leads to
- John 3:36
  Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life. Whoever rejects the Son will not see life. Instead, the wrath of God remains on him.”
- Romans 5:12
  Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
- James 1:15
  Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
- John 6:40
  For it is My Father’s will that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in Him shall have eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.”
- Ezekiel 18:20
  The soul who sins is the one who will die. A son will not bear the iniquity of his father, and a father will not bear the iniquity of his son. The righteousness of…
Through
Romans 8:5
Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh; but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
leads to
- 1 Corinthians 2:14
  The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
- Galatians 5:19–25
  The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
- John 3:6
  Flesh is born of flesh, but spirit is born of the Spirit.

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About John

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About John