By now the light has returned. John’s Gospel tells us that at this point Jesus, knowing that his sufferings and the atonement were near completion spoke words that would cause a further Scripture to be fulfilled.
What thirst that would have been! The Son of God suffered and died in terrible thirst, so that he could give us rivers of living water, and a fountain of living water so that we will never thirst – not in life here, not in eternity.