Please subscribe to Social Jesus Here<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a>.<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\nWhen a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, \u201c<\/span>Will you give me a drink?\u201d (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)<\/p>\nThe Samaritan woman said to him, \u201c<\/span>You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?\u201d (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, \u201c<\/span>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.\u201d \u201c<\/span>Sir,\u201d the woman said, \u201c<\/span>you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons [and daughters] and his livestock?\u201d Jesus answered, \u201c<\/span>Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 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.\u201d<\/p>\nThe woman said to him, \u201c<\/span>Sir, give me this water so that I won\u2019<\/span>t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.\u201d He told her, \u201c<\/span>Go, call your husband and come back.\u201d \u201c<\/span>I have no husband,\u201d she replied. Jesus said to her, \u201c<\/span>You are right when you say you have no husband. 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201c<\/span>Sir,\u201d the woman said, \u201c<\/span>I can see that you are a prophet. Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we must worship is in Jerusalem.\u201d \u201c<\/span>Woman,\u201d Jesus replied, \u201c<\/span>believe me, a time is coming when you will worship God neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Judeans. Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship God in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers God seeks. God is spirit, and God\u2019s worshipers must worship in the Spirit and in truth.\u201d<\/p>\nThe woman said, \u201c<\/span>I know that Messiah\u201d (called Christ) \u201c<\/span>is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.\u201d Then Jesus declared, \u201c<\/span>I, the one speaking to you\u2014I am he.\u201d<\/p>\nJust then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one asked, \u201c<\/span>What do you want?\u201d or \u201c<\/span>Why are you talking with her?\u201d Then, leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, \u201c<\/span>Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Messiah?\u201d They came out of the town and made their way toward him.<\/p>\nMeanwhile his disciples urged him, \u201c<\/span>Rabbi, eat something.\u201d But he said to them, \u201c<\/span>I have food to eat that you know nothing about.\u201d Then his disciples said to each other, \u201c<\/span>Could someone have brought him food?\u201d \u201cMy food,\u201d said Jesus, \u201c<\/span>is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work. Don\u2019<\/span>t you have a saying, \u2018<\/span>It\u2019<\/span>s still four months until harvest\u2019<\/span>? I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest. Even now the one who reaps draws a wage and harvests a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. Thus the saying \u2018<\/span>One sows and another reaps\u2019 is true. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work, and you have reaped the benefits of their labor.\u201d<\/p>\nMany of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman\u2019<\/span>s testimony, \u201c<\/span>He told me everything I ever did.\u201d So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days. And because of his words many more became believers. They said to the woman, \u201c<\/span>We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.\u201d (John 4:5-42,Scriptures taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version\u00ae, NIV\u00ae. Copyright \u00a9 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.\u2122 Used by permission of Zondervan.)<\/p>\nThe Johannine community\u2019s version of the Jesus story begins with a collection of dialogues. Last week we looked at the first one, the story of Nicodemus. This week we are looking at a story that many scholars believe is included to explain why the Johannine community included Samaritan Jews when the Jews of Judea excluded them, and why they also included women, who are seen as disposable within patriarchal societies. The woman in this story had experienced rejection many times from the various men in her life, and her latest situation was filled with anxiety. The Jesus of this story is speaking directly to women like her.<\/p>\n
Our reading is comprised of three sections: Jesus\u2019 dialogue with the nameless woman, his exchange with the disciples after she departs, and the many Samaritan Jews that come out to meet Jesus and embrace him as \u201cSavior of the world,\u201d a title usually used then to refer to Rome and Caesar.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ll begin unpacking these sections, next.<\/p>\n
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