John 4:1-20 1 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 worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.”
Here it says that the Lord Jesus left Judea and went to Galilee. He had to go through Samaria, Samaritans are Gentiles, Jews had no association with them. Jesus was tired from the journey, so he sat down by the well. Here we see that the Lord Jesus as a human being also got tired. At this time, a Samaritan woman came to the well to draw water. The Lord Jesus asked her for a drink, then he talked about the living water. What does the living water represent? The living water represents the Holy Spirit received when a person believes in the Lord and is baptized. The Holy Spirit lives in the person as the living water which makes him no longer hunger and thirst, and the living water flows to eternal life. The Lord Jesus is God. He knows everything. He knew that this woman had had five husbands, but the man she had then was not her husband. This woman was not satisfied with her life, and the Lord Jesus promised her the living water that would satisfy her. With the living water, the Holy Spirit in one’s life, he will no longer hunger and thirst, and he will be satisfied. A person will have an abundant life, a life with the presence of the Lord, the presence of the Holy Spirit. From this passage we see God’s great love and mercy, he is willingness to accept the sinners. He does not look at a person’s past sins and gives people a chance to repent.
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