HIGHLIGHTED PASSAGE John 4:1-30 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2(although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), 3 he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. 4 And he had to pass through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 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. 7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8 (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 9 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.) 10 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.” 11 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? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.” 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 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.” 15 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.” 16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” 19 The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things.” 26 Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.” 27 Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?” 28 So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” 30 They went out of the town and were coming to him. COMMENTARY The conversation between Jesus and the Samaritan woman is one of the present author's most beloved stories in all the gospels. It highlights the contrast between God's ways and our own, between God's work and our work. Jesus waits alone at the well while his disciples go into town. There at the well he meets a woman who comes to get water. The unspoken dynamics of this scene are explosive in their original setting. As verse 8 says, the Jews "had no dealings with Samaritans." Additionally, as verse 27 makes clear, men do not ordinarily engage in direct conversation with women, especially in one-on-one settings. For her part, the woman comes to the well as an ostracized pariah. She defies typical behavior by fetching water alone in the heat of the day. We may infer, then, that the woman deliberately seeks to avoid others. All of these dynamics highlight the nature of Jesus. It is no accident that he is at the well when she comes. As others have said, this is a truly divine appointment! When Jesus talks with her, he does so with intention. He is like an arctic fox digging for a mouse under thick layers of snow. His goal is to instill faith in her that has himself as its object. When at the end of their conversation the woman says, "I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things," Jesus has her right where he wants her. He tells her, "I who speak to you am he.” The analogy of living water gives way to this forthright declaration. The woman startles her neighbors in declaring candidly, "He told me all that I ever did.” How many of us boast that another has learned all of our dirty secrets? This woman exemplifies what Jesus says in ...
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