John 4:1-42 The Samaritan Woman

So in the beginning of John chapter 4,  The Pharisees, had heard rumors that Jesus's had been baptizing people, more people than John the Baptist . However, Jesus had not been baptizing , his disciples had actually been the ones baptizing the people.

So Jesus decided to leave Judea and head toward Galilee, but had to travel through Samaria on the way.

When he reached  Sychar, which is the city of Samaria Jesus rested from his journey by the well of Jacob. Where he met a Samaritan woman who was drawing water from the well. He asked for a drink , and she was shocked by his request. As back in those times Jews had no dealings with Samaritans. 

Jesus then replied to the woman, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

The woman replied, " you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep." Then she asked, Are you greater than our Father Jacob who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”

Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22 You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.24 God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”

The woman then replied,  “I know that Messiah is coming” (who is called Christ). “When He comes, He will tell us all things.”


Then Jesus told her, “I who speak to you am He.”

At this point his disciples had returned to him with food. They saw the woman in which Jesus had been speaking to, but never asked what they had talked about. Instead his disciples urged him to eat, and Jesus spoke to them saying, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work. 35 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months and then comes the harvest’? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest! 36 And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together. 37 For in this the saying is true: ‘One sows and another reaps.’38 I sent you to reap that for which you have not labored; others have labored, and you have entered into their labors.”

The woman ran back to the city in which she had came, and spoke to the people there of Jesus, and how he knew her and the things she had done. So the people came because of what the woman had told them.

When they had come to him, they had asked him to stay with them. So Jesus stayed with them for two days. Many more believed in him because of His own word.

 Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of what you said, for we ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.”