“But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.”
Then the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life — eternal life (zoen aionion) in John means not merely endless duration but present knowledge of God (17:3: 'Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent'). The fountain becomes internal and perpetual, transforming the person from within.
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