The Samaritan woman

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Jesus Talks With a Samaritan Woman. 4 Now Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John — 2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. 3 So he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.

4 Now he had to go through Samaria. 5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given. The Samaritan Woman is generally portrayed in our Bible studies as a woman of ill-repute. While avoiding people because of her deep shame over her immoral life, she seemingly stumbled upon Jesus resting at a well.

However, most people reading this story are left with a nagging question/5(15). Introduction to the Samaritan Woman at the Well.

Though we are not told this woman’s name, she has the longest conversation with Jesus of any character in the book of John. Yet, throughout the years she has often been maligned or misunderstood because of her sexual history. The Woman at the Well – John Note: A more recent, better article on the Samaritan woman is here.

John sets the scene for this narrative. It is midday, and Jesus and his disciples have arrived at a Samaritan town called Sychar which is close to the land Jacob gave to Joseph’s descendants.[3]. Who was the Samaritan Woman. The Samaritan woman’s story has 3 parts: 1 The woman meets Jesus at a well Jesus and his disciples stop at a roadside well.

He meets a Samaritan woman. She is alone – why. Women usually moved in groups. She questions him boldly and becomes convinced he is the Messiah. John 2 The woman returns to her town. JOHN 7 A Samaritan woman came to draw water.

Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink,” 8 for His disciples had gone away into the town to buy food. 9 Then the Samaritan woman said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, who am a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

Answer: The story of the nameless Samaritan woman at the well, recorded only in the Gospel of John, is a revealing one, full of many truths and powerful lessons for us today.

The story of the woman at the well follows on the heels of the account of Jesus’ interaction with Nicodemus, a Pharisee and prominent member of the Jewish Sanhedrin. A Samaritan Woman Meets Her Messiah.

4 Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and () baptized more disciples than John 2 (though Jesus Himself did not baptize, but His disciples), 3 He left Judea and departed again to Galilee.

4 But He needed to go through Samaria. 5 So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that. Jesus Meets the Woman at the Well. During his encounter with the woman at the well, Jesus broke three Jewish customs. Firstly, he spoke to her despite the fact that she was a woman.

Second, she was a Samaritan woman, and the Jews traditionally despised Samaritans. And, third, he asked her to get him a drink of water, although using her cup or.

The Book Biblical Thinking. Toggle Sidebar. Ma Febru The Samaritan Woman (John ), Commentary. Jesus knew the Pharisees were envious and spiteful, and were conspiring against him, therefore he left so they would not disrupt his work.

It was necessary for him travel through Samaria, not just geographically, but. The woman thinks Jesus is talking about real water. But he is talking about the truth concerning God and his kingdom. This truth is like life-giving water. It can give a person everlasting life.

Jesus now tells the woman: ‘Go and call your husband and come back.’ ‘I don’t have a husband,’ she answers. ‘You answered right,’ Jesus says.

The story of the Samaritan woman is indeed symbolic: Jesus is the bridegroom (an image used in John 3), the one who is greater than Jacob, who will gather a people to worship and transcend the distinctions that have kept Jews and Samaritans at odds for centuries.

But the Samaritan woman is a serious character in her own right. Nicodemus and the Samaritan Woman. Using Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman recorded in chapter 4, and Jesus’ encounter with Nicodemus recorded in chapter 3, John presents fundamental and profound spiritual truths, and yet the Samaritan woman and Nicodemus could not be more different from each other.

Nicodemus was male, a Jew, and. They were instructed from the books of Moses, but still retained many of their idolatrous customs.

The Samaritans embraced a religion that was a mixture of Judaism and idolatry (2 Kings ). Because the Israelite inhabitants of Samaria had intermarried with the foreigners and adopted their idolatrous religion, Samaritans were generally. The Samaritan woman doesn’t appear again in scripture, but for centuries afterward, numerous spiritual writers, theologians, and scholars retold and pondered her encounter with Jesus.

Augustine (AD –), for instance, uses the example of the woman at the well to describe the spiritual thirst the human heart has for goodness and truth. The Samaritan woman was the first person to whom Jesus revealed himself as Messiah in the Gospel of John, and this is the first “I am” statement in the gospel as well (Cunningham and Hamilton, ; see “‘I am’ in John’s Gospel”).

Why did Jesus reveal himself to this woman and not to Nicodemus. The woman was not expecting a. A Samaritan Woman Approaches. John records these words: “There came a woman of Samaria to draw water” (Jn. Two things are significant.

First, she was a Samaritan, and, as the apostle comments, “Jews have no dealings with Samaritans” (v. Second, her gender presented an obstacle. The Samaritan Woman book.

Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers/5. Online shopping from a great selection at Books Store. W hy was the woman at the well a turning point for women, not only in Christianity but also in the world.

The “woman at the well” or the story of the Samaritan Woman at the Well is a well known story where Jesus reveals Who He is to the woman, but there is a much. The story of Jesus encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well is a profound passage.

Jesus didn't truly need anything from this woman. In fact, he came t.The woman knows that (according to the traditions of Judean Israelites) Jesus would be ritually contaminated if he were to use a vessel that belonged to a Samaritan woman.

A later Judean legend, which asserted that Samaritan women’s menstrual cycles began immediately following childbirth, serves to emphasize this point (BT, Niddah ).The Samaritan is the second book written by Scottish author Mason Cross featuring Carter Blake.

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