Living Water
Living Water John 4:1-26
John 4:1-6
1So then, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that [a]He was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus Himself was not baptizing; rather, His disciples were), 3 He left Judea and went away again to Galilee. 4 And He had to pass through Samaria. 5 So He *came to a city of Samaria called Sychar, near the parcel of land that Jacob gave to his son Joseph; 6 and Jacob’s well was there. So Jesus, tired from His journey, was just sitting by the well. It was about [b]the sixth hour.
John 4:7-11
7 A woman of Samaria *came to draw water. Jesus *said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 8 For His disciples had gone away to the city to buy food. 9 So the Samaritan woman *said to Him, “How is it that You, though You are a Jew, are asking me for a drink, though I am a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus replied to her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” 11 She *said to Him, “[c]Sir, You have no bucket and the well is deep; where then do You get this living water?
John 4:12-15
12 You are not greater than our father Jacob, are You, who gave us the well and drank of it himself, and his sons and his cattle?” 13 Jesus answered and 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 shall never be thirsty; but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up to eternal life.” 15 The woman *said to Him, “[d]Sir, give me this water so that I will not be thirsty, nor come all the way here to draw water.”
John 4:16-20
16 He *said to her, “Go, call your husband and come here.” 17 The woman answered and said to Him, “I have no husband.” Jesus *said to her, “You have correctly said, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one whom you now have is not your husband; this which you have said is true.” 19 The woman *said to Him, “[e]Sir, I perceive that You are a prophet. 20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and yet you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one must worship.”
John 4:21-26
21 Jesus *said to her, “Believe Me, woman, that [f]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, because salvation is from the Jews. 23 But [g]a time is coming, and [h]even now has arrived, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for such people the Father seeks to be [i]His worshipers. 24 God is [j]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 that One comes, He will declare all things to us.” 26 Jesus *said to her, “I am He, the One speaking to you.”
At The Well We find Acceptance
This woman was the ultimate reject. Everything about her cried out RUN! But Jesus does not run, on the other hand, he begins to talk to the woman.
You see that woman came to Jacob’s Well that day an utter and complete reject. Everything about her - from her birth, her home, to her lifestyle - made her a reject! However, when Jesus sends her back, he sends her back accepted by God!
At The Well We Find Life
Jesus used a different Greek word for “well” in contrast to the word the woman had used for “well”. Jesus’ “well” is alive, dynamic, active, a spring, a fountain, but the woman’s “well” is but a hole in the round, more like a cistern, with water at the bottom.
Jesus offered her water far better than that from the well. He had “living water,” which only He could give. Only through Jesus can we obtain and receive Eternal Life!
At The Well We Find Salvation
Just as the Samaritan woman did not fully understand who Jesus was at first, we also need Jesus to open our eyes to the reality of who He is. It is only in Jesus that we will be saved from our sins and made new. Jesus puts our sin and shame to death on the cross and calls us to walk in His light.
At The Well We Find Hope
The woman came to the well wounded and she left whole. She came to the well hopeless and she ran back overflowing with hope! Jesus gave the Samaritan woman the hope of eternal, everlasting hope through him!
The Samaritan woman that day came to the well with a bucket and left as a spring of living water and she could not hold it in!