The critics of Jesus ministry had just been thinking that Jesus was baptizing but in actual fact,
it was His disciples who where baptizing. Jesus ,now ,after His disciples finished baptizing has
to leave Judea and go back to Galilee. He has to pass through Samaria for God has prepared
an assignment for Him there. He comes to a town in Samaria called Sychar near the plot of
ground Jacob had given to His son Joseph Jacob's well is located here and because Jesus was
tired due to the long journey,
He sits down there by the well. This shows us that Jesus had a body just like you and me for
he could get tired. It is around noon by the time Jesus is getting to the well so probably it it
hot also. A Samaritan woman comes to draw water at around this time and finds Jesus resting
by the well. It was not usual for women to go to the well alone for fetching water is
considered a social activity by the Samaritans. This woman is stigmatized evidently by are way
of life. Amazingly, she finds a man sited by the well. By look he looks like any other man so
when Jesus engages the woman in a discussion, she thinks she is about to get a man like the
others she has been drawing into fornication. To make the matter worse, the disciples of Jesus
had gone to look for food, so Jesus and the woman, were there by themselves.
The environment looks suitable for private talk but Jesus seizes this opportunity to give a
worship talk, and from there He reveals who He is to the woman. Jesus breaks the silence by
asking for water to drink from the Jacob's well. By look Jesus looks like a Jew to the woman,
and traditionally, Jews and Samaritans can't mix and can't drink from the same well. The
woman is not understanding clearly who is speaking to her. By look she concludes that Jesus
is Just a Jew. She is not seeing beyond the Jewish body for Jesus took a body like the
descendants of Abraham. She is not also understanding the gift of God. The well she has
come to draw water from is symbolically gift of God. Jacobs' well is deep ,and to draw the
water from there one needs something to draw the water. The woman cannot understand
that Jesus is able to draw the water of life. Jesus is making it clear here the fact that, he who
drinks the water He is giving will never thirst again rather this water will well up to eternal life.
This is the kind of water we need. Men and women are thirsty for the wrong things which
never satisfy. Jesus satisfies and gives eternal life. When the woman opened up to the living
water ,Jesus drops the bombshell, "Go get your husband and come back" Jesus makes this
request with understanding for He knows all things. The
woman is now very sincere to Him because she needs the living water.
Jesus said to her, “You are right when you say you have no husband. Jesus makes it clear to the woman that what she says, that she has no husband is true and that the one she thinks she has is not her husband. By this statement, the woman redefines her definition of Jesus from just a Jew to a prophet. Then she introduces the idea of worship and the place of worship. To this Jesus responds with divine wisdom by beginning from the known to the unknown. He makes it clear to the woman now that she knows He is a prophet, that a time is coming and the time is now when true worshippers will not worship on that mountain or in Jerusalem. But rather they will worship God in the Spirit and truth. After the insight on what worship is all about, the woman make new discovery and says, when Messiah will come He will tell them all things. To this Jesus says He is the Messiah the woman is waiting for. This shows us if we are to worship acceptably, we have to know Jesus prophetically and as the Truth. This is possible by the power of the Holy Spirit. As a prophet ,He will reveal to you the times and seasons of God. As Messiah, He will tell you about yourself and you will discover you need the Him to save you. Know, how do you know Him.
Jesus is able to meet us as we go about our businesses. Once He meets us He begins a process to engage us and lead us to know Him so that We may worship acceptably. It begins with Thirst for him, Then see Him through the prophetic eye. This leads you to know Him as the messiah. Messiah means the anointed one. In Greek ,Christ. Which means the anointed one