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."
      [5.] Christ answers this cavil, and makes it out that the living water he had to give was far better than that of Jacob's well, John 4:13; John 4:14. Though she spoke perversely, Christ did not cast her off, but instructed and encouraged her. He shows her,