Living water in John 4:13-14

[anon91549587]

Is this water the water at baptism? If the superior bread of life in John 6 is consumed today , it made me wonder where the water is in todays context.

13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

 

[Vico]

Is this water the water at baptism? If the superior bread of life in John 6 is consumed today , it made me wonder where the water is in todays context.

13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

Grace, beginning with actual graces for conversion and sanctifying grace of baptism and continuing with other sacraments.

Haydock Commentary, John 4

Verse 13
Shall thirst again. After any water, or any drink, a man naturally thirsts again; but Christ speaks of the spiritual water of grace in this life, and of glory in the next, which will perfectly satisfy the desires of man’s immortal soul for ever.

 

[Todd_Easton]

On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and proclaimed, “If any one thirst, let him come to me and drink. He who believes in me, as the scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart shall flow rivers of living water.’” Now this he said about the Spirit, which those who believed in him were to receive; for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified. (John 7:37-39)

A few chapters later, in the above passage, Jesus speaks again about “living water” and there it said to refer to the (Holy) Spirit.

 

[JGD]

It is sort of all three - the water of Baptism in which we initially receive the Holy Spirit and the life of sanctifying grace He infuses into our soul through His presence.

CCC 1999 The grace of Christ is the gratuitous gift that God makes to us of his own life, infused by the Holy Spirit into our soul to heal it of sin and to sanctify it. It is the sanctifying or deifying grace received in Baptism. It is in us the source of the work of sanctification

 

[anon91549587]

If i were to pray to St.Benedict was the grace against gluttony , and i find myself overcoming the vice. Is that the water given to me?

 

[bob4]

From the Navarre Bible commentary for Jn 4:13-14; “Christ is referring to the change worked in every person by sanctifying grace, a share in God’s own life, the presence of the Holy Spirit in the soul, the great gift which those who believe in him will receive.”