The Soul Winner
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A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”
Jesus disciples went to grab food, so Jesus was left alone.
He started talking to this Samaritan women and I’m sure she was shocked to hear a Jewish man ask for a drink.
The normal prejudices of the day prohibited public conversation between a man and a women, between Samaritans and Jews . And especially between strangers. And the fact that Jesus was classified as a rabbi.
Jesus violated 4 normal prejudices of the day.
He had a public conversation with a women.
He being a Jewish male had a public conversation with a Samaritan women.
They were both total strangers to each other was looked down upon
Jesus being looked at as a Jewish Rabbi. Made it worst Rabbis would rather go thirsty then to violate these proprieties. ( Order of the day)
For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.
She was surprise and curious all at once.
Dealings in Greek : associate , or use together. NIV in the marginThe Jews did not use dishes the Samatrians use.
In soul winning sometimes you have to be willing to go outside yourself to minister.
A Rabbinic law of A.D. 66 stated that Samaritan women were considered as continually menstruating and thus unclean. Therefore a Jew who drank from a Samaritan woman’s vessel would become ceremonially unclean.
Jesus answered and said to her, “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.”
Jesus captured her attention and stimulated her curiosity.
Three things where provoked in her thinking.
Who is He?
What is the gift of God?
What is living water?
Living water in one sense is running water, but in another is The Holy Spirit.
Jer. 2:13 ““For My people have committed two evils: They have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, And hewn themselves cisterns—broken cisterns that can hold no water.”
Zech. 14:8 “And in that day it shall be— That living waters shall flow from Jerusalem, Half of them toward the eastern sea And half of them toward the western sea; In both summer and winter it shall occur.”
John 7:38-39 “He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.” But this He spoke concerning the Spirit, whom those believing in Him would receive; for the Holy Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.”
John 4:11-12 “The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? 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?””
This well to this day is considered to be the deepest in Palestine. This well is no joke.
“Are you greater then our father Jacob was meant as a insult.”
Thats like a prisoner giving legal advice. “ Are you greater then my lawyer.”
Or a husband telling his wife felt about pregnancy.
Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
Jesus began to unveil the truth of Jacobs well. That well can only provide temporal statifcation.
But the living water Jesus was talking about provides continual satisfactions of needs and desires.
You have this well that has this inner spring thats hard work allot of effort and doesn't satisfy.
But then you have this living water. this stream this river. Thats constantly flowing and never ends and that its easy to obtain it.
In John 4:4 - Jn 4:4 (KJV) And he must needs go through Samaria.
Jesus was headed to Cana of Galilee .
The Samaria was 42 miles north of Jerusalem
Jesus could have went along the coast which would have taken longer
According to Josphus who was a historian . He said because of the conflict between the Jews and Samaria the Jews would prevent going through at all cost .
According to John 4:34 - it was The Fathers will that he went through .
Samaria- there was no civil rights laws between the Samaritans and the Jews.
There was great strain between the Jews and Samaritans . So much so they would prolong a journey just to prevent from going through Samaria .
This was the place where Jezebel influenced Ahab, her husband, to make the city the center for Baal worship (1 Kings 16:29-33). This was a hub to worship false gods. Jezebel also had many prophets of Yahweh killed in Samaria (1 Kings 18:2-4).
Here Elijah destroyed the messengers of King Ahaziah, who were seeking the consultation of Baalzebub. He, likewise, prophesied of King Ahaziah death (2 Kings 1).
The samaritans always where poor in that day .
The relationship of the Jews and Samaritans where so strained. In Luke 9:51-55 James and John wanted fire to come down from heaven on the Samaritans because they didn’t receive Christ .
Luke 9:51-55 (NKJV)
54 And when His disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, just as Elijah did?"
55 But He turned and rebuked them, and said, "You do not know what manner of spirit you are of.
Lk 9:56 (NKJV) For the Son of Man did not come to destroy men's lives but to save them." And they went to another village.