John 4

Jesus is Identified

A Jew (7-10)

John 4:9 “Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.”

The Greater Jacob (11-15)

John 4:12 “Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?”

People throughout John confuse spiritual things for material thing,

nicodemus being born again

water at the well.

Things of this world will never satisfy like Jesus will

A Prophet (13-24)

John 4:19 “The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.”

The only way to prepare the soil of the heart for the seed is to plow it up with conviction

This phrase she spoke is the shortest phrase she speaks in all of this interaction

The Christ (25-26, 29-30)

John 4:29 “Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?”