but whoever once drinks of the water that I will give him, shall never thirst any more, but the water that I will give him shall become a living spring of water within him, welling up into eternal life."

Jacob's Spring was there. So Jesus, tired out with his journey, was sitting thus by the spring.

"Sir!" exclaimed the woman, "give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty, nor come all this way to draw water."