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Observation 1 (v.7-10)

Read verses 7-10.

7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.”

8 (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.)

9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

Notice in verse 7 that it was Jesus who initiated the conversation.He was by Himself according to verse 8 because his disciples had gone away to the city to buy food.The Samaritan woman might have been surprised since Jews had no dealings with Samaritans for reasons that we’ve covered already.She asked why would Jesus ask her for water since Jews have no dealings (meaning no business) with Samaritans.The answer Jesus gave will give us the motive for Jesus asking her for a drink. His answer can be found in verse 10.

​ ESV10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

Notice two things.

First, Jesus said “If you knew the gift of God”

Which meant that she didn’t know of the gift of God. She didn’t have the gift of God.In the Pauline epistles we see the gift as:1. A spiritual gift2. Grace as a gift3. Free gift4. Gift of righteousness5. Gifts in the church6. In we see that the free gift of God is eternal life in Jesus Christ.7. And in , being saved by grace through faith is a Gift of God.In Pastoral epistles, Timothy was told to fan into flame the gift of God ()And in the General Epistles, we see that Every good and perfect gift is from above ().This is the only time Jesus would speak of the gift of God in the gospel of John.And in the gospels this is the only time Jesus speaks of the gift of God.Question: So what exactly is the gift of God?The answer is found in this very gospel.

​ ESV37 On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. 38 Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ ” 39 Now this he said about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive, for as yet the Spirit had not been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

The Holy Spirit is the living water.She didn’t know of the Holy Spirit. She didn’t have the Holy Spirit which means that she didn’t know (couldn’t know) who Jesus was.

Second “and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.”

The gift spoken of in , of being saved by grace through faith is what she needed.

She needed grace and Jesus said that if she knew who He was she would have asked Him for living water. Namely, the Holy Spirit.We see here that she did not know of her need for Jesus Christ.