Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
Ver. 10. The gift of God] That is, Christ himself, called by St Paul the benefit, ευεργεσια, 1 Timothy 6:2. Let him not be to us as Jether's sword to him, which he drew not, used not; but as Goliath's sword to David, none to that. None but Christ, none but Christ, said that martyr.