The Woman at the Well

On his way to Galilee, Jesus passes through Samaria. Tired, he sits down by Jacob’s well, near Sychar, about the sixth hour. A Samaritan woman comes to draw water. “Give me to drink,” Jesus says to her. She is surprised: Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. Jesus offers her living water: “Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst.” Then he reveals her life to her: she has had five husbands, and the man she has now is not her husband. “I perceive that thou art a prophet,” she says. Jesus tells her that true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. When she mentions the Messiah, he declares, “I that speak unto thee am he.” Leaving her waterpot behind, she goes back to the city: “Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did!” Many Samaritans believe in him: he is indeed the Savior of the world.