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John 4:10

World English Bible

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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John 4:10 in other translations

Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.

John 4:10 · American Standard Version

John 4:10 in context

  1. 8For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
  2. 9The 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.)
  3. 10Jesus 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.”
  4. 11The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water?
  5. 12Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his children and his livestock?”