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​ ESV1 Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than (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?”

John 4

Introduction

Introduction

It is important to remember the purpose of this book.

The gospel of John and the accounts found in them of Jesus performing signs, these are written so that we would believe that He is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing we would have life in his name.

Our text today is no exception to this intent.

We saw in the previous chapter a man named Nicodemus who came to Jesus by night.

We saw in the third chapter that Nicodemus was a man of the Pharisees.

The Pharisees were a group of particularly observant and influential Jews who lived mainly in Judea.

The meaning of the title Pharisee may have meant “separate ones” in Hebrew, which would have referred to their observance of ritual purity laws.

Or it could have meant “interpreters,” referring to their persistent study and teaching of biblical law.

Nicodemus was a studied man and an influential man who knew the Scriptures.

But in our text today we see someone unlike Nicodemus.

This woman was a Samaritan who was not seeking Jesus and was socially despised and immoral.

Socially despised because she was a Samaritan.

And immoral because she was living with a man who was not her husband.

Nicodemus was according to rejected the testimony of Jesus given by the writer of this gospel, John the Baptist and the disciples.

But here, we will see the Lord Jesus evangelizing to someone who many thought unworthy of fellowship and care.

One, who was socially despised and labeled as an outsider, would be found by the One who was sent to save a people from their sin.

And He would put this on display in our passage!

Outline

Introduction

The Setting (v.1-6)

It is important to remember the purpose of this book.

4 Observations (v.7-24)

​ ESV30 Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book; 31 but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

The Conclusion (v.25-27)

The gospel of John and the accounts found in them of Jesus performing signs, these are written so that we would believe that He is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing we would have life in his name.Our text today is no exception.We saw in the previous chapter a man named Nicodemus who came to Jesus by night.We saw in the third chapter that Nicodemus was a man of the Pharisees.The Pharisees were a group of particularly observant and influential Jews who lived mainly in Judea.The meaning of the title Pharisee may have meant “separate ones” in Hebrew, which would have referred to their observance of ritual purity laws.

Or it could have meant “interpreters,” referring to their persistent study and teaching of biblical law.Nicodemus was a studied man and an influential man who knew the Scriptures.But in our text today we see someone unlike Nicodemus.This woman was a Samaritan who was not seeking Jesus and was socially despised and immoral.Nicodemus was according to rejecting the testimony about Jesus.But we will see what happens to someone who accepts the truth about who Jesus Christ is.One who was socially despised and labeled as an outsider would be found by the One who was sent to save a people from their sin.And He would put this on display in our passage!

First: The Setting (v.1-6)

Read verses 1 to 6

The setting of our text has Jesus knowing that the Pharisees had heard about Him making and baptizing more disciples than John.

The concern here may have been over the Pharisees coming to him with accusations and possible arrest.

We know that in the beginning of His ministry in , when Jesus heard of John’s arrest, He withdrew to Galilee.

Which seems to be the same here in our text.

The distance from Judea to Galilee which Jesus traveled as noted our text today, was about 70 miles.

Which would have been a journey of about 2 1/2 days.

Judea was south from Galilee.

And in between the two was the region of Samaria which in verse 4 we see that Jesus had to pass through in his journey to Galilee.

There were other options.

Jesus could have traveled around Samaria as many did to avoid becoming unclean from possible interactions with the Samaritans.

But the Scripture says that Jesus had to pass through it.

Maybe because it was the fastest route north or it was because He was led there.

I believe it was because He was led.

About Samaritans

Their origins stem from the captivity of the northern kingdom under Assyria in 721 BC.

Jews of the northern kingdom intermarried with Assyrians after the captivity and produced the half-Jewish, half-Gentile Samaritan people who we now know as the Samaritans.

Their practices were considered impure and their faith was labeled as a pagan religion.

They are first mentioned in the Bible during the time of Nehemiah when the rebuilding of Jerusalem was taking place after the Babylonian captivity.

We see this in Ezra and in the book of Nehemiah.

The Samaritans held to the belief that they were the keepers of the Torah.

They believed that they were the true descendants of Israel.

Specifically from the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh.

They had a unique copy of the Pentateuch (the first five books of Moses).

And they believed that they alone practiced the purest form of the Mosaic religion.

They also thought of the Jerusalem temple and the Levitical priesthood as illegitimate and so they established their primary place of worship at the site of Mount Gerizim.

They were avoided and seen as an impure people.

That is why in the Jews there sought to offend Jesus by calling Him a demon possessed Samaritan.

Which was suggesting that he was a half breed only.

Accusing his mother of unfaithfulness and calling him demon possessed which showed you their feelings about Samaritans.

This also brings to light Jesus’ use of the parable of the Good Samaritan which would have been extremely offensive.

Jesus used the parable to make the point of who reall

So Jesus traveled in a land that was considered to be full of unclean people.

Read verses 5 and 6.

Outline

These verses recall what happened in .

We know that Jacob gave a section of land to Joseph which was purchased from the “children of Hamor” (cf. ).

And we know that Joseph’s remains were buried in that region and the region became the inheritance of Joseph’s descendants.

We do not know exactly where Jacob’s well was but what we do see is the weariness of Jesus from His journey.

The sixth hour would have made it at about noon our time.