The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. So where do you get that living water?
Parallel translations
- KJV The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
- BSB “Sir,” the woman replied, “You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then will You get this living water?
- NKJV The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water?
- NASB She *said to Him, “Sir, You have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do You get this living water?
- NLT “But sir, you don’t have a rope or a bucket,” she said, “and this well is very deep. Where would you get this living water?
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- 1 Cor 2:14Now the natural man doesn’t receive the things of God’s Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can’t know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
- John 3:4Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?”
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