John 4
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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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Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.” The woman said to him, “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.” Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. 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. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.” 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.” Jesus said to her, “I who speak to you am he.”
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?” So the woman left her water jar and went away into town and said to the people, “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?” They went out of the town and were coming to him.
Meanwhile the disciples were urging him, saying, “Rabbi, eat.” But he said to them, “I have food to eat that you do not know about.” So the disciples said to one another, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?” Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to accomplish his work. Do you not say, ‘There are yet four months, then comes the harvest’? Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes, and see that the fields are white for harvest. Already the one who reaps is receiving wages and gathering fruit for eternal life, so that sower and reaper may rejoice together. For here the saying holds true, ‘One sows and another reaps.’ I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. And many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, “It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world.”
6th hour is noon
She came alone probably because of shame
Like Nicoemus she doesn’t understand Jesus’ spiritual insights.
Living Water: Running water
The Holy Spirit is compared to living water in the OT. That is the gift of God
Water more important than gold. Can’t surive without it.
It is refreshing calming
Drink on a hot day
Our bodies made of it our planet as well
The well over 100 feet deep and Jesus had no bucket (to get the underground spring)
In the Greek she was implying that he was not greater than Jacob
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.”
Welling up mean literally jumping up to eternal life. The work of the Holy Spirit in the life of the believer. No need to thrist. It will be a continual spring.
The jumping up a good metaphor for the experintial move of the Holy Spirit
She then asks for Water
This brings Jesus to lead her to the water (Spirit) by acknowleding sin
(Possible interperationt that the samaritan woman was adulterouls like Samaritans. They left the true husband)
The woman deflects as many people do when you witness to them she si confronted with her sin
Mt Gerizim was the mountain the Samaritans worshipped and Jersualem Jews because Torah God said he would put his name.
Jesus settles dispute in favor of Jews
God is Spirit so he must be worshipped in Spriit and in truth. Not sacred sites inward heart true heart not motivated by pride or obligation
Worshipping God in truth==His true revelation
Trappings of worship we look at ours but is the guitar any different from the incense? The candle from the stage light?
Spirt and in truth
Truth meaning full revelation of God
Samaritans expected Messiah Tahib the Samaritan expectation of Messiah would be to restore proper worship
He admits he is Messiah.
the harverst is a ready as they will ever be
The sower and reaper can only suceed in God
Jesus confronts her sin but that is love to do so.