Jesus and the Samaritan Woman
When Jesus realized that the Pharisees were aware He 1was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John Jhn 3:26Jhn 3:222Co 4:51Co 15:471Co 2:8Act 10:36Jas 2:1Luk 1:76 (although it was not Jesus who baptized, but His disciples), 1Co 1:13-17Act 10:48 He left Judea and returned to Galilee. Mat 10:23Jhn 10:40Jhn 11:54Jhn 3:22Jhn 1:43Jhn 2:11Jhn 3:32Mrk 3:7
Now He had to pass through Samaria. Luk 17:11Luk 9:51-52Luk 2:49Mat 10:5-6 So He came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jos 24:32Gen 33:19Gen 48:22Jhn 4:12 Since Jacob’s well was there, Jesus, weary from His journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour. 2 Heb 4:15Heb 2:17Mat 8:24Mat 27:45Mat 4:22Co 8:9Jhn 11:9Luk 2:7
When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” Mat 10:421Ki 17:10Jhn 19:282Sa 23:15-17Gen 24:43Jhn 4:10 (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) Jhn 6:5-7Luk 9:13Jhn 4:39Jhn 4:5
“You are a Jew,” said the woman. “How can You ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) 3 Act 10:282Ki 17:24-41Jhn 8:48Mat 10:5Luk 17:16-19Act 1:8Jhn 4:27Luk 10:33
Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God and who is asking you for a drink, you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.” Jhn 4:14Rev 7:17Jhn 7:37-39Isa 44:3Rev 21:6Jhn 3:16Psa 36:8-9Jer 2:13
“Sir,” the woman replied, “You have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where then will You get this living water? 1Co 2:14Jhn 3:4 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock?” Jhn 8:53Mat 12:42Heb 3:3Isa 53:2-3Jhn 4:6
Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again. Jhn 6:27Isa 65:13-14Luk 16:24Jhn 6:49 But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.” Jhn 7:38-39Jhn 6:35Isa 49:10Rev 7:16Eph 1:13-14Jhn 11:26Jhn 6:581Jn 5:20
The woman said to Him, “Sir, give me this water so that I will not get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.” Jhn 6:34Psa 4:6Rom 8:5Jas 4:3Jhn 17:2-3Jhn 6:26Rom 6:231Jn 5:20
Jesus told her, “Go, call your husband and come back.” Heb 4:13Jhn 21:17Rev 2:23Jhn 2:24-25Jhn 1:42Jhn 1:47-48Jhn 4:18
“I have no husband,” the woman replied.
Jesus said to her, “You are correct to say that you have no husband. In fact, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband. You have spoken truthfully.” 1Co 7:10-11Jer 3:20Rom 7:3Mrk 10:12Ezk 16:32Gen 20:3Gen 34:2Gen 34:31
“Sir,” the woman said, “I see that You are a prophet. Jhn 6:14Luk 7:39Jhn 9:17Luk 7:16Jhn 7:40Mat 21:111Co 14:24-252Ki 5:26 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must worship is in Jerusalem.” Deu 12:5-11Gen 33:18-202Ch 7:12Deu 11:29Deu 27:12Gen 12:6-71Ch 21:261Ch 22:1
“Believe Me, woman,” Jesus replied, “a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 1Ti 2:8Eph 2:18Mal 1:11Jhn 4:23Mat 18:20Eph 3:14Ezk 14:3Jhn 16:2 You worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. Act 17:23Isa 2:3Rom 9:4-5Luk 24:47Act 17:30Psa 147:19Rom 3:1-2Zep 3:16-17 But a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father is seeking such as these to worship Him. Php 3:3Mat 15:7-9Jhn 5:25Gal 4:6Rom 8:26Jud 1:20-21Isa 29:13Eph 6:18 God is Spirit, and His worshipers must worship Him in spirit and in truth.” 2Co 3:17Mat 15:8-9Php 3:3Psa 51:17Isa 57:151Sa 16:71Ti 1:17Psa 66:18
The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (called Christ) “is coming. When He comes, He will explain everything to us.” Jhn 1:49Dan 9:24-26Jhn 4:29Jhn 4:42Mat 1:16Jhn 1:41-42Deu 18:15-18Jhn 4:39
Jesus answered, “I who speak to you am He.” Jhn 8:24Mrk 14:61-62Jhn 9:35-37Rom 10:20-21Luk 13:30Mat 26:63-64Mat 16:20Mat 20:15
The Disciples Return and Marvel
Just then His disciples returned and were surprised that He was speaking with a woman. But no one asked Him, “What do You want from her?” or “Why are You talking with her?” Luk 7:39Jhn 4:8-9
Then the woman left her water jar, went back into the town, and said to the people, Jhn 4:7Luk 24:33Mat 28:8Luk 24:9Mrk 16:8-10 “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?” Rev 22:171Co 14:24-25Jhn 1:41-49Jhn 4:25Jhn 4:17-18Jhn 7:26Jhn 7:31Mat 12:23 So they left the town and made their way toward Jesus. Act 10:33Act 13:42Act 8:5-8Isa 60:8Luk 17:16-18Mat 11:20-24Mat 12:40-42Mat 2:1-3
Meanwhile the disciples urged Him, “Rabbi, eat something.” Gen 24:33Jhn 1:38Act 16:30-34Mat 23:7
But He told them, “I have food to eat that you know nothing about.” Job 23:12Psa 119:103Jhn 4:34Pro 18:20Jer 15:16Psa 63:5Pro 14:10Psa 25:14
So the disciples asked one another, “Could someone have brought Him food?” Luk 9:45Mat 16:6-11
Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work. Jhn 6:38Jhn 5:30Job 23:12Jhn 17:4Jhn 19:30Jhn 4:32Mat 26:39Jhn 5:36 Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe 4for harvest. Luk 10:2-3Mat 9:37-38Jhn 4:30
Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together. Jas 5:19-201Co 3:5-9Rom 1:132Ti 4:7-8Pro 11:30Dan 12:3Rom 6:221Co 9:19-23 For in this case the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. Mic 6:15Job 31:8Jdg 6:3Luk 19:21 I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the hard work, and now you have taken up their labor.” Jhn 1:72Ch 36:15Act 10:42-431Pe 1:11-12Act 10:37-38Act 8:14-17Act 4:4Act 5:14
Many Samaritans Believe
Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me everything I ever did.” Jhn 4:29Jhn 10:41-42Jhn 4:5Jhn 11:45Jhn 4:42 So when the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him to stay with them, and He stayed two days. Rev 3:20Luk 24:292Co 6:1-2Act 16:15Gen 32:26Luk 19:5-10Luk 8:38Jer 14:8
And many more believed because of His message. 1Co 2:4-5Act 1:8Act 8:12Act 8:25Mat 7:28-29Jhn 6:63Act 15:3Gen 49:10 They said to the woman, “We now believe not only because of your words; we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man truly is the Savior of the world.” 1Jn 4:141Jn 5:201Ti 4:10Jhn 1:292Co 5:19Act 4:12Jhn 3:14-18Jhn 6:68-69
Jesus Heals the Official’s Son
(Matthew 8:5–13; Luke 7:1–10)
After two days, Jesus left for Galilee. Jhn 4:40Mat 15:21-24Mat 4:13Mrk 7:27-28Rom 15:8Jhn 1:42Jhn 4:46 Now He Himself had testified that a prophet has no honor in his own hometown. Mat 13:57Luk 4:24Mrk 6:4 Yet when He arrived, the Galileans welcomed Him. They had seen all the great things He had done in Jerusalem at the feast, for they had gone there as well. Jhn 2:23Jhn 2:13-16Deu 16:16Jhn 3:2Luk 9:53Luk 2:42-44Luk 8:40Mat 4:23-24
So once again He came to Cana in Galilee, where He had turned the water into wine. And there was a royal official whose son lay sick at Capernaum. Jhn 2:1-11Psa 50:15Hos 5:15Luk 7:2Luk 8:42Mat 15:22Mat 9:18Jhn 21:2 When he heard that Jesus had come from Judea to Galilee, he went and begged Him to come down and heal his son, who was about to die. Act 9:38Jhn 11:21Jhn 11:32Jhn 4:3Luk 7:6-8Luk 8:41Mrk 10:47Mrk 2:1-3
Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will never believe.” Jhn 20:291Co 1:22Heb 2:4Dan 4:2Jhn 12:37Act 2:22Luk 16:31Rom 15:19
“Sir,” the official said, “come down before my child dies.” Mrk 5:23Mrk 5:35-36Psa 40:17Psa 88:10-12
“Go,” said Jesus. “Your son will live.” Mat 8:13Mrk 7:29-30Rom 4:20-21Luk 17:14Act 14:9-10Heb 11:19Jhn 11:40Mrk 9:23-24
The man took Jesus at His word and departed. And while he was still on the way, his servants met him with the news that his boy was alive. 1Ki 17:23Jhn 4:50Jhn 4:53
So he inquired as to the hour when his son had recovered, and they told him, “The fever left him yesterday at the seventh hour. 5”
Then the father realized that this was the very hour in which Jesus had told him, “Your son will live.” And he and all his household believed. Psa 107:20Luk 19:9Act 11:14Act 16:34Act 18:8Mat 8:13Psa 33:9Act 16:15
This was now the second sign that Jesus performed after coming from Judea into Galilee. Jhn 2:1-11Jhn 4:45