Patristic A.D. 430
“(Tr. xv. c. 13.) She understands the living water to be the water in the well; and therefore says, Thou wishest to give me living water; but Thou hast nothing to draw with as I have: Thou canst not then give me this living water; Art Thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?”
Catena Aurea: Gospel of John, as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on John 4:7-12
PD · J. H. Newman (Oxford, 1845) ↗