He does not refer to Himself as the living water. Living water rather, symbolizes the Spirit, whom He would send, than the Christ Himself. Oderberg

He does not refer to Himself as the living water. Living water rather, symbolizes the Spirit, whom He would send, than the Christ Himself.

• Both thought they were spiritually secure.

• Both were crudely literal or materialistic in their reaction to Jesus’ spiritual teaching.

• Both were spiritually empty and sensed the need for God.

• Both were spiritually lost, and that was the root of all their other problems (Boice, I, pp. 335–37).

13 For My people have committed a double evil:

They have abandoned Me,

the fountain of living water,

and dug cisterns for themselves,

cracked cisterns that cannot hold water.