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Living Water

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Follow one image from the first page of the Bible to the last: water that gives life.

Few images run as far through Scripture as living water. It begins as a literal river watering Eden, becomes water struck from a rock to keep a nation alive, turns into a prophet's lament that the people have abandoned "the spring of living waters," swells into Ezekiel's river flowing from the temple to heal a dead sea — and then Jesus stands up and says *he* is the source, the living water being the Spirit he gives. The trail ends where the Bible ends: a river of the water of life, clear as crystal, flowing from God's throne. Walk it and you watch a single thread become the gospel.
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    A river flows out of Eden

    Genesis 2:10

    Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it branched into four headwaters:

    Creation begins with a river watering a garden where God dwells with humanity.
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    Water from the rock at Horeb

    Exodus 17:6

    Behold, I will stand there before you by the rock at Horeb. And when you strike the rock, water will come out of it for the people to drink.” So Moses did this in the sight of the elders of Israel.

    In the wilderness, God brings water from a struck rock to keep Israel alive — Paul later says "that rock was Christ."
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    The spring of living waters

    Jeremiah 2:13

    “For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living water, and they have dug their own cisterns—broken cisterns that cannot hold water.

    Jeremiah's indictment: the people have forsaken God, "the spring of living waters," for broken cisterns.
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    The river from the temple

    Ezekiel 47:9

    Wherever the river flows, there will be swarms of living creatures and a great number of fish, because it flows there and makes the waters fresh; so wherever the river flows, everything will flourish.

    Ezekiel sees a river flowing from the temple, deepening as it goes, bringing life everywhere it touches.
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    "Living water" at the well

    John 4:10

    Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

    Jesus tells a Samaritan woman he can give "living water" that becomes a spring welling up to eternal life.
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    Rivers of living water

    John 7:38

    Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”

    At the festival Jesus cries out — and John explains the living water is the Spirit believers would receive.
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    The river of the water of life

    Revelation 22:1

    Then the angel showed me a river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

    The Bible ends with a crystal river flowing from God's throne through the new creation.