John 4 – Jesus Speaks with the Woman at the Well

This passage in chapter 4 starts with the statement, "Now He (Jesus) had to go through Samaria!" He could have gone a different way, but God the Father had a meeting planned with a woman at Jacob's well. Now only was she a woman, but she was a Samaritan woman. Not only was she a Samaritan woman, but she was a social outcast even among her own people. When she came to the well, Jesus did not ignore her. He did not look down on her. He did not preach to her, instead He asked her for a drink of water. Jesus then turned the conversation from physical water to spiritual water which springs up to eternal life. She asked Jesus about where to worship, and He answered "How" to worship, and that is in Spirit and in truth. After she encountered Jesus, she ran into her town of Sychar, leaving her water jug behind, and told the town, "Come see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?" They came, and Jesus stayed for two more days, and at the end they said, "We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world." Jesus was not just the Savior of the Jews, but the Savior of the world, if we confess our sin and accept Jesus as our Savior.