Charles Spurgeon Commentary John 4:11

"The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then hast thou that living water?" — John 4:11 (ASV)

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?

You who reverence the majesty of Christ's Deity, the perfection of his humanity, the glory of his atoning sacrifice, the splendor of his resurrection power, you who know from where he has this living water, the power to save and to bless, worship and adore him with all your heart and soul.

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?

Christ told the woman that he could give her living water, but it puzzled her to know how he could get at it. The well where they had met was deep, and he had nothing to draw the water out of it. How, then, could he go deeper still to get the living water of which he had spoken?

She could not understand his simile, and to this day it is the same with many of our hearers. The simplest language of God's ministers goes right over the heads of the people; they take our words literally when they ought to see that they are spiritual, and, on the other hand, I have known them to spirit them away when they ought to be accepted literally.

Such is the perversity of man's mind that, often, he will not understand the truth.