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."
The gift of God ...  In this, Jesus referred to himself, the gift of God to all the world.  Amazingly, the supreme gift of God from all eternity sat at that very moment on the ledge of Jacob's well; but the poor woman, dodging the scorn of neighbors, and coming to the well in the heat of the day, had suddenly confronted the Lord of life.  Moses' discovery of the burning bush was not any more remarkable.  What a pathetic thing it is to contemplate this woman standing face to face with God incarnate, and yet unaware of it.  How blind are our eyes, how deadened our senses, how feeble our souls, when, face to face with God, we nevertheless cannot see him!