The Woman at the Well

Introduction

Jews vs Samaritans

Northern/Southern Kingdoms

Assyrian takeover

Jews released from Babylon

Ezra 4 - Adversaries of Jews

False religion

Jesus’s pursuit - seek and save those who are lost.

v 7-9

Woman

Samaritan

Outcast

Contrast Nicodemus

The woman’s pride - false religion and misunderstanding of sin.

v 10-15 - misunderstanding

v 16-18 - the woman’s sin

Compare Nicodemus

Jesus’s proclamation - Jesus is the savior.

v 19 - 26

v 19-20 - the woman’s question

v 21-24 - Jesus’s response

“Salvation is from the jews.” (v 22)

“An hour is coming” day not time (v23)

“Spirit and truth” (v 24)

Truth is the understanding of Jesus

Spirit is the gift of the Holy Spirit

v 25 - The woman’s confession of faith

v 26 - Jesus’s revelation

Compare Nicodemus

Application

We are to seek and save (the great commission).

We will encounter obstacles.

Thomas Watson, a seventeenth-century Puritan pastor, wrote, “Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet”.

We are to proclaim Jesus.

John Piper - “God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.”