Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman
He told her everything she ever did
4 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John— 2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3 So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.
7 When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Will you give me a drink?” 8 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)
9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.”
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
16 He told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.”
17 “I have no husband,” she replied.
Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband.18 The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. What you have just said is quite true.”
19 “Sir,” the woman said, “I can see that you are a prophet. 20 Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
21 “Woman,” Jesus replied, “believe me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22 You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshippers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshippers the Father seeks. 24 God is spirit, and his worshippers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.”
25 The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
26 Then Jesus declared, “I, the one speaking to you—I am he.”
The Disciples Rejoin Jesus
27 Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, “What do you want?” or “Why are you talking with her?”
28 Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, 29 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?” 30 They came out of the town and made their way toward him.
What a lovely story. Jesus sat and waited for a lost and lonely spirit. A woman, so lonely for love that she went through one partner after another, could not visit the well at the same time as the town women.
She was isolated because of her lifestyle, and probably because a number of the women were angry; she was not particular about making eyes at their menfolk.
Yet this lady was not only lonely, she yearned for God. She was a spiritual woman, and Jesus knew she would make a fine missionary.
So the woman from Sychar is ministered to by Jesus, and is so inspired that she drops her water jar [her precious water jar] without a second thought and rushes back to the town to cry out the news; has she found the Messiah?
And indeed, she has.
As have we.
Every day, Jesus can be seen in our lives. He is not even a breath away; He is there all the time, ready to come to our aid in our loneliness, our despair, our difficulties, our financial struggles.
He knows everything we have ever done. We cannot fool the Messiah of the Universe. And why would we want to?
He can tell each of us everything we have ever done. Let us not fear this wondrous King of the Universe. Let us humbly acknowledge our broken nature, heritage of the Fall of our ancestors, and ask Him for help to personally reach holiness.
He knows everything we have ever done; yet He does not recoil. He does not reject; He merely wishes to forgive and help us move away from destructive patterns of behaviour.
He wishes us to become whole.
Turn to Him today, rest in His loving gaze, and let Him tell you all you have ever done.
Offer up to Him the sinful within yourself in a spirit of repentance and prayer, and ask for Divine Grace to change.
And be absolutely sure; you will receive it. The Lord Who ministered to a little Samaritan woman that no-one had ever heard about, and gave her a completely new life with His Love and acceptance, will surely hear our plea too.
GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR LENT!
GOOD LUCK WITH YOUR JOURNEY TO BECOME A SAINT IN ETERNITY!
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