Given such wide symbolic resonances, it should therefore come as no surprise that water is also linked elsewhere with Christ’s summons to new creation. Because of the background knowledge required, this is usually not noted in respect of the same gospel’s treatment of the feast of Tabernacles.26 But in fact Jesus’ earlier depiction of himself as living water fits perfectly with a major theme of this autumn feast: prayers for rain and the unusual rituals associated with such a plea. During
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