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Jesus Meets the Samaritan Women
John 4:1–15
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A crow was almost dying of thirst when he spied a pitcher, but he found that it was nearly empty. The little water in it was so low, that try as he might, he was unable to reach it. He then tried to break the pitcher, then to overturn it, but his strength was not sufficient to do … More
Because Jesus was on a divinely appointed schedule and was no respecter of persons, He went through Samaria. Earlier, He had counseled a moral Jewish man (Chapter 3), and now He would be witnessing to an immoral Samaritan woman! He and His disciples stopped at Jacob’s well near Sychar about the sixth hour which is thought to be at noontime, though it may possibly have been six in the evening (v. 5). The disciples went on to do some shopping while Jesus waited at the well (v. 6).
Soon a Samaritan woman came to draw some water and Jesus asked her to give Him a drink (vv. 7-8). The woman was amazed at this request because of the animosity between the Jews and the Samaritans (v. 9). Having aroused her curiosity, Jesus then pointed out to her that she was ignorant of three important facts: Who He was, what He had to offer, and how she could receive it. When He spoke about living water she interpreted His words to mean literal water (vv. 10-15).
Application
If I never get thirsty and want a drink physically, I have a problem. If I find myself never getting thirsty spiritually for the Word of God, I have a more serious problem.
John 4:1-15 (English Standard Version)
Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour. A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, 'Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock." Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water."
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