lesson 18~ Jesus speaks to the Samaritan woman at the well

As Jesus was passing through Samaria, he stopped at Jacob's well there. Jesus was thirsty and ask a Samarian woman for a drink. The Samerian woman ask him why he was asking her for a drink of water. You see he was a Jew and she was  a Samarian. Jews had been taught not to talk to a person who was not a Jew. Even though those in Samaria were have Jews, they were looked down upon by the Jews. Jesus did not let this keep him from talking to her, for he had a plan. 

Jesus tells her that the Samarian woman does not understand who he is & that if she had known who he was she would have asked for living water. She didn't understand, so she asked him how he could get the water from the well if he had no bucket to put into the well to get water out of the well. Jesus tells her that whoever would drink of the water from this well would get thirsty again. BUT whoever drank the water that he would give would not be thirsty again. For Jesus was talking of the Holy Spirit and eternal life. 

Then Jesus told the woman to go and get her husband and bring him back to Jesus. She told Jesus that she did not have a husband. Jesus told her that what she said was true, but that she had been married five different time to different husbands, and the man she was living with was not her husband. 

The woman thought that Jesus was a prophet. Then  she went on to tell him that her people worshiped God there in Mt. Samaria , but the Jews worshiped God in Jerusalem. Jesus told her that the day was coming when the true worshipers would worship God in their hearts, not a certain place. 

Then she said that she knew that the Messiah was to come and explain everything to them. Jesus told her that he was the Messiah. 

About them Jesus followers came with the food they had gone to get, and the woman went into the city to tell everyone that she had met the Messiah, and brought them out to meet Jesus. Jesus stayed 2 days with them teaching them. After Jesus left the people of the city told the woman, we believe because we have seen and heard him ourselves.

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