Woman at the Well - Part 3

The woman asked Jesus, “Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us this well...?”

Jesus affirms that He is. He explains that Jacob established a well which satisfied an earthly thirst. But that He has come to establish a well which will satisfy a spiritual thirst—a spring of living water welling up to eternal life.

“Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

But the woman is still ensnared in worldly thinking. Her desire for the living water has been awakened, but she wants it for the wrong reason. She considers, now, that the water might have supernatural power—the power to permanently quench her physical thirst. But she seems to have missed the part about eternal life. She is unaware of her deeper need.