Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,
Eternal life ... here plainly identified the blessing Jesus promised the woman of Samaria.  It was impossible after these words for the woman to have misunderstood the direction of our Lord's remarks.  It does seem, however, that she misunderstood the promised blessing as including a cessation of ordinary thirst also, which would have made it unnecessary for her to come again to the well of water.