Though literal water is essential for sustaining life on earth, Jesus had in mind a different type of water when he said to a Samaritan woman at a well: “Whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty at all, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water bubbling up to impart everlasting life. ”
در اینجا منظور رفع تشنگی با آب معمولی که از اکسیژن و ئیدروژن تشکیل شده است نیست .‏ البته ،‏ هر کس می‌داند که آب برای بقای حیات ضروری است .‏