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And the story continues
Messiah was a term used by the Jewish people, but not usually used by the Samaritans.
The Samaritans and had another term: Prophet, Teacher, or Taheb
It meant “he who returns,” or “he who restores”.
The way John explains things indicates he is aware of the tradition of the Samaritans.
The reader isn’t surprised when Jesus says, “I who speak to you am he.”
The reader knows this from .
What is most surprising is that Jesus makes this announcement, “I am he,” on Samaritan soil, and not Jewish soil.
Six chapters later, the Jewish people are still asking Jesus to tell them if he is the Messiah or not:
The understanding that the Messiah will “tell us all things” is consistent with other parts of the Gospel of John, and what it tells us about the Messiah and what the Messiah will do.
joh 3:11-12
This is the first time Jesus uses the phrase “I am”, which He will use many times in the Gospel of John.
joh 8:24
joh 8
Joh 4:27
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Before the woman can respond to Jesus claim to be the Messiah they are interrupted.
The disciples return from the trip into the village to get food (they left Jesus alone in verse 8).
For some reason they don’t respond to Jesus’ claim to be the Messiah, which the probably would have overheard, but instead what is of most concern to them is that Jesus is talking to a woman.
They seem to be too afraid of Jesus’ authority to ask him questions about why he was talking to a woman.
The woman leaves her water jar.
Why?
For Jesus to use?
He had asked for a drink.
More likely, she’s in a hurry to tell other people and doesn’t want to take the time.
The jar would slow her down getting back to town.
When the disciples first heard about Jesus they left their fishing nets to follow him.
Mark
What does she want to tell everyone?
What she says is: “Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did.
Can this be the Christ?”
She must have been concerned about how the men she told would respond to her message.
Bad reputation.
Probably not known for her honesty or purity.
Her words are similar to Philip’s words:
Despite what the woman might have expected, the men come out to see Jesus.
They come to him much like people had come to him to be baptized:
Back at the well: The disciples have abrupt words, “Rabbi, eat.”
Remember, Jesus never got his drink of water that he had asked for.
We will see him also abstain from the food that is offered to him.
His words mirror his words to the woman: “I have food to eat that you do not know about.”
Just like the Samaritan woman, they take the metaphor literally.
They ask each other, “Has anyone brought him something to eat?”
Jesus explains that his food the harvest.
Joh 4:34-338
His food is the product of a harvest.
Point one: patience is needed to reap a harvest.
You have to wait for the crops to grow to maturity.
Point two: the time of harvest has arrived, and patience is no longer in order, action is what is needed.
The time for waiting is over: Jesus has arrived.
The Messiah is here now.
The harvest is the harvest of souls of those who were coming out to him from the village (verse 30).
White unto harvest
An unusual expression and probably refers to the white hair of old age, fully mature.
White also is a symbol of purity and redemption.
Harvester and sower
Both are rejoicing.
There is joy in the harvest being complete.
He is telling his disciples that they are reapers, not sowers.
The great harvest is underway, Jesus is saying.
Who is the harvester and who is the sower?
(revisited)
Disciples are the harvesters, they have the joy of reaping the harvest.
Others have come before them to sow the seed.
Just before this the disciples had been baptizing.
This was reaping the harvest.
It is quite possible that they baptized the Samaritans who came out to follow Jesus.
(It is not mentioned but it fits)
Joh 4:39
Many believed.
They believed because of the woman’s testimony.
Only the disciples have followed Christ, up to this point.
At the time of the Passover there were some who believed, but Jesus didn’t entrust himself to them:
John
These “believers” ask Jesus to stay.
Jesus did stay for two days.
What happened during the two days Jesus stayed?
Jesus teaches them, and they believe because Jesus’ own words.
They emphasize what they have heard - not so much what they have seen.
Not so much the signs, that they saw, but the words they heard.
We don’t know Jesus’ exact words to them, but they conclude that Jesus is “indeed the Savior of the world.”
Not just the savior of the Jews or the Samaritans, but the world.
Jesus is the Savior of Gentiles.
Jesus is the savior of all and any who will come to Him, to believe in Him.
Who can receive eternal life?
What qualifies a person to inherit eternal life?
Believing in Jesus.
Who can believe?
Anyone in the world.
What keeps you from believing in Jesus as your Lord and Savior each and every moment of every day?
He invites you to come to him.
Come.
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