John Chapter 4 verse 15 Holy Bible
The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come all the way hither to draw.
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The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be in need again of drink and will not have to come all this way for it.
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The woman says to him, Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst nor come here to draw.
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The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
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The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I don't get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw."
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The woman saith unto him, `Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come hither to draw.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 15. - The woman has not yet emerged out of the region of her physical desires and her daily requirements, and needs a deeper apprehension of her real necessities. By reason of the subsequent narrative she ought not to be credited now with impertinence or irony (Lightfoot, Tholuck). She could not understand the miraculous water of which the Stranger spake, but had some dim notion that he might be able to deliver her from her toilsome and exhausting life. She replies to him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come all the way hither to draw. The Lord had spoken of eternal life, and she is content to have temporal satisfaction to the extent of thirsting no more. Some commentators, with Lange and Hengstenberg, suppose that the journey to Jacob's well was in her mind a quasi-religious act, the insufficiency of which to meet her case is at length becoming apparent. This view seems to us inconsistent with the sudden change of metaphor and alteration of his method of approach to this woman's consciousness and need. He resolved rather to search her heart and reveal her to herself - to bring forth from its hiding place the torpid conscience, and reveal to her the grievous need in which she stood of that Divine cleansing, healing, nutrition, refreshment, which he had been sent into the world to supply. This reflection renders the reply of Jesus less obscure than its abrupt transition seems to imply.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(15) Come hither.--The Sinaitic and Vatican and some other MSS. read, "come through hither," or as Alford, who adopts the reading, renders it, "come all the way hither." Godet also adopts the reading, but renders it, in the service of a forced explanation, "pass by here," thinking that the woman was on her way home from work at meal-time, and that this accounts for her presence at the well at noon. He regards this as sans doute, but the reading itself is at least uncertain, and is probably to be explained by its first syllable being added from the last syllable of the previous word; and the translation is more than uncertain.The woman understands the words in their physical sense. How many a toilsome hour, how many a weary journey would she be saved!
