0140901 Samaritan Woman at Jacob’s well – John 4:4-29, A.D. 26 Sychar in Samaria
And he needed to pass through Samaria. So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. And Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. And it was about the sixth hour.
And a woman of Samaria came to draw water. And Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. And the Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.) And Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” And the woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. From where then have you that living water? Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his livestock?” And Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never thirst again; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life.” And the woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I do not get thirsty, neither come all the way here to draw.”
And Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” And the woman answered and said to him, “I have no husband.” And Jesus said to her, “You said well, ‘I have no husband,’ for you have had five husbands; and he whom you now have is not your husband. This you have said truly.” And the woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour comes, when neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, will you worship the Father. You worship that which you do not know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshippers. God is a Spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” And the woman said to him, “I know that Messiah comes,” (he who is called Christ). “And when he has come, he will declare to us all things.” And Jesus said to her, “I am he, the one who speaks to you.” And at this, his disciples came. And they marveled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no man said, “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you speak with her?” So the woman left her water pot, and went away into the city, and said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Christ?”