John 4:13

Green's Literal Translation

Jesus answered and said to her, Everyone drinking of this water will thirst again;

Parallel Translations

Simplified Cowboy Version
Jesus smiled as he kneeled down by the well and said, "Anyone who drinks this water will eventually get thirsty again.

Legacy Standard Bible
Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again;

Bible in Basic English
Jesus said to her, Everyone who takes this water will be in need of it again:

Darby Translation
Jesus answered and said to her, Every one who drinks of this water shall thirst again;

New King James Version
Jesus answered and said to her, "Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again,

Christian Standard Bible®
Jesus said, "Everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again.

World English Bible
Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Jesus answered and said to her, Whosoever drinketh of this water, will thirst again.

Weymouth's New Testament
"Every one," replied Jesus, "who drinks any of this water will be thirsty again;

King James Version (1611)
Iesus answered, and said vnto her, Whosoeuer drinketh of this water, shall thirst againe:

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Iesus answered, and sayde vnto her: Who so euer drynketh of this water, shal thyrst agayne:

Mace New Testament (1729)
Jesus answered her, they that drink of this water, will be thirsty again:

THE MESSAGE
Jesus said, "Everyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again and again. Anyone who drinks the water I give will never thirst—not ever. The water I give will be an artesian spring within, gushing fountains of endless life."

Amplified Bible
Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.

American Standard Version
Jesus answered and said unto her, Every one that drinketh of this water shall thirst again:

Revised Standard Version
Jesus said to her, "Every one who drinks of this water will thirst again,

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Iesus answered and sayde vnto hir: whosoever drinketh of this water shall thurst agayne.

Update Bible Version
Jesus answered and said to her, Every one that drinks of this water shall thirst again:

Webster's Bible Translation
Jesus answered and said to her, Whoever drinketh of this water, shall thirst again:

New Century Version
Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,

New English Translation
Jesus replied, "Everyone who drinks some of this water will be thirsty again.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again.

Complete Jewish Bible
Yeshua answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Iesus answered, and said vnto her, Whosoeuer drinketh of this water, shall thirst againe:

George Lamsa Translation
Jesus answered and said to her, Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again;

Hebrew Names Version
Yeshua answered her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again,

International Standard Version
Jesus answered her, "Everyone who drinks this water will become thirsty again.

Etheridge Translation
Jeshu answered and said to her, Every one who shall drink of these waters again will thirst;

Murdock Translation
Jesus replied and said to her: Whoever shall drink of these waters, will thirst again;

New Living Translation
Jesus replied, "Anyone who drinks this water will soon become thirsty again.

New Life Bible
Jesus said to her, "Whoever drinks this water will be thirsty again.

English Revised Version
Jesus answered and said unto her, Every one that drinketh of this water shall thirst again:

Berean Standard Bible
Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.

New Revised Standard
Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Jesus answered, and said unto her - Whosoever drinketh of this water, will thirst, again;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Jesus answered and said to her: Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: but he that shall drink of the water that I will give him shall not thirst for ever.

King James Version
Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:

Lexham English Bible
Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Iesus aunswered, and sayde vnto her: Whosoeuer drynketh of this water, shal thyrst agayne:

Easy-to-Read Version
Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again.

English Standard Version
Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again,

New American Standard Bible
Jesus answered and said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again;

Good News Translation
Jesus answered, "Those who drink this water will get thirsty again,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Jhesus answerde, and seide to hir, Eche man that drynkith of this watir, schal thirste efte soone; but he that drynkith of the watir that Y schal yyue hym, schal not thirste with outen ende; but the watir that Y schal yyue hym,

Young's Literal Translation
Jesus answered and said to her, `Every one who is drinking of this water shall thirst again;

Contextual Overview

⁴ And it was needful for Him to pass through Samaria. ⁵ And He came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the piece of land Jacob gave to his son Joseph. ⁶ And Jacob's fountain was there. Then being wearied by the journey, Jesus sat thus on the fountain. It was about the sixth hour. ⁷ A woman came out of Samaria to draw water. Jesus said to her, Give Me some to drink. ⁸ For His disciples had gone away into the city that they might buy provisions. ⁹ Then the Samaritan woman said to Him, How do You, being a Jew, ask to drink from me, I being a Samaritan woman? For Jews do not deal with Samaritans. ¹⁰ Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and who is the One saying to you, Give Me to drink, you would have asked Him, and He would give you living water. ¹¹ The woman said to Him, Sir, You have no vessel, and the well is deep. From where then do You have living water? ¹² Are You greater than our father Jacob who gave us the well, and he and his sons and his livestock drank out of it? ¹³ Jesus answered and said to her, Everyone drinking of this water will thirst again;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Whosoever: John 6:27, John 6:49, Isaiah 65:13, Isaiah 65:14, Luke 16:24

Reciprocal: John 6:35 - never hunger

Cross-References

Job 15:22
He does not believe in a return from darkness, but he is awaited by the sword.

Revelation 16:9
And men were burned with great heat. And they blasphemed the name of God, the One having authority over these plagues and they did not repent to give Him glory.

Revelation 16:11
And they blasphemed the God of Heaven, from their pains and from their sores. And they did not repent of their works.

Revelation 16:21
And a great hail, as the size of a talent, came down out of the heaven upon men. And men blasphemed God from the plague of the hail, because its plague is exceedingly great.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Jesus answered and said unto her,.... In a mild and gentle manner, patiently bearing all her scoffs and flouts, and continuing to instruct and inform her, concerning this living water, showing the preferableness of it to all others:

whosoever drinketh of this water; meaning in that well called Jacob's well, or any other common water:

shall thirst again; as this woman had often done, and would again, as she herself knew, John 4:15, and as Jesus did, who very likely afterwards drank of it, John 19:28. For though water allays heat, quenches thirst, and refreshes and revives the spirits for a while, yet in process of time, natural heat increases, and thirst returns, and there is a necessity of drinking water again.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Shall thirst again - Jesus did not directly answer her question, or say that he was greater than Jacob, but he gave her an answer by which she might infer that he was. He did not despise or undervalue Jacob or his gifts; but, however great might be the value of that well, the water could not altogether remove thirst.