John 4:3–26 (ESV) 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.”
Biblical Portraits of Life-Giving Water A. Eden (Genesis 2)
Water represents a source of life, blessing, and provision
B. Water in the Wilderness (Exodus 17) C. Water Flowing from the Temple(Ezekiel 47) D. The Cross(John 19:34)
Biblical Portraits of Wells
Isaac and Rebekah – Genesis 24
Jacob and Rachel –Genesis 29
Moses and Zipporah – Exodus 2
Jesus reframes the pattern.
The Samaritan Woman 1. She’s a woman 2. A Samaritan Woman 3. She was immoral 4. She was broken
Jesus cares for the broken. Psalms 34:18(NIV) The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
“Jesus repairs her with the water she will carry.”
John 4:14(ESV) 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.”
“You don’t retrieve living water, you receive it.”
Living Water:
“You don’t draw living water; it draws you. “
“When we drink of Jesus, the river takes over.”
Her Response John 4:28-29(ESV) 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?”
1. She left her jar.
2. She said to her people, “Come and See.”
“A lot can happen with one Encounter with Jesus.”
Isaiah 55:1 (ESV) “Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the water...”
