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.