<p>4:11 <i>The woman said to him: Sir, you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. From where then have you that living water?</i>- The well presumably required users to bring their own bucket or even rope. She had power over this exhausted Jew. But &quot;living water&quot; was known as the language of the Messianic age, and as a Samaritan, this woman would not have been unaware of it. I suggest that she is responding to the Lord's figurative language on the same level. How could this exhausted, very human Jew give this Messianic water- the well was deep, and spiritually speaking, it was very hard for Him to get it for her, surely... for after all... <i>He </i>surely was not the Messiah. His lack of a bucket to get the literal water was reflected in His obvious to her lack of ability to give the Messianic gift.</p>