I just wanted to share something interesting that I cam across some time ago and then forgot.
In the story about the woman at the well and the "living water" there are two things that are connected, but not obviously.
Firstly "living water" refers to the Holy Spirit.
Jn 7:37-39
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, ase]"> 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.
Secondly, in the story a point is made about drawing water from the well (v 7, 11, 15).
The connection?
In the Jewish Encyclopaedia it says (in a section on baptism):
The only conception of Baptism at variance with Jewish ideas is displayed in the declaration of John, that the one who would come after him would not baptize with water, but with the Holy Ghost (Mark i. 8; John i. 27). Yet a faint resemblance to the notion is displayed in the belief expressed in the Talmud that the Holy Spirit could be drawn upon as water is drawn from a well (based upon Isa. xii. 3; Yer. Suk. v. 1, 55a of Joshua b. Levi).
BAPTISM - JewishEncyclopedia.com
In the story about the woman at the well and the "living water" there are two things that are connected, but not obviously.
Firstly "living water" refers to the Holy Spirit.
Jn 7:37-39
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, ase]"> 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.
Secondly, in the story a point is made about drawing water from the well (v 7, 11, 15).
The connection?
In the Jewish Encyclopaedia it says (in a section on baptism):
The only conception of Baptism at variance with Jewish ideas is displayed in the declaration of John, that the one who would come after him would not baptize with water, but with the Holy Ghost (Mark i. 8; John i. 27). Yet a faint resemblance to the notion is displayed in the belief expressed in the Talmud that the Holy Spirit could be drawn upon as water is drawn from a well (based upon Isa. xii. 3; Yer. Suk. v. 1, 55a of Joshua b. Levi).
BAPTISM - JewishEncyclopedia.com