^10 [a]Jesus answered and said to her,^(A) “If you knew the gift of God and who is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.” ¹¹ [The woman] said to him, “Sir,^[b] you do not even have a bucket and the well is deep; where then can you get this living water? ¹² Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself with his children and his flocks?”^{(B) 13} Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again; ¹⁴ but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”^{(C) 15} The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.”

^35 [a]Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.^(A)

³⁷ On the last and greatest day of the feast, Jesus stood up and exclaimed, “Let anyone who thirsts come to me and drink.^{(A) 38} Whoever believes in me, as scripture says:

³⁹ He said this in reference to the Spirit that those who came to believe in him were to receive. There was, of course, no Spirit yet,^[b] because Jesus had not yet been glorified.^(C)

Discussion About the Origins of the Messiah.^[c]

⁶ He said to me, “They are accomplished.^[a] I [am] the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give a gift from the spring of life-giving water.^(A)

¹⁷ The Spirit and the bride^[a] say, “Come.” Let the hearer say, “Come.” Let the one who thirsts come forward, and the one who wants it receive the gift of life-giving water.^(A)