What good is quenched thirst and a bath when you are isolated and outside the camp? The horror of shame is the isolation. Even though isolation is temporarily safe, it isn’t the way you were intended to live. So if this water is going to be really good, it must be more than water. A little later John tells us that this is the case. The living water ultimately points to the Spirit who would be given to all who believe in Jesus. This Holy Spirit (John 7:39) had already begun his work in the Samaritan woman. The Spirit’s presence in you is the real living water. The Spirit himself goes outside
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