WomanThe

Wellat the

Dead Sea

Sea of Galilee

Samaria

Judea

Galilee

Jerusalem

SycharModern Nablus

Jacob’s Well at Nablus(Sychar)

SycharModern NablusMount Gerizim

Jerusalem

The Samaritans

• Origin – 2 Kings 17.24-29

(2Ki 17:29) However every nation continued to make gods of its own, and put them in the shrines on the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in the cities where they dwelt.

The Samaritans• Origin – 2 Kings 17.24-29• Opposed Jews on return – Ezra 4.4-10; Neh.

4.1-2

The Samaritans

• Origin – 2 Kings 17.24-29• Opposed Jews on return – Ezra 4.4-10; Neh.

4.1-2• Some Jews had intermarried with them and

had children among them – Ezra 9 & 10; Neh. 13.28; 23-27

• Mutual hatred between Jews and Samaritans – Jn. 8.48; Luke 9.51-56

The Samaritans

• Jesus’ attitude toward them:– Did not allow His apostles to go to them at first,

Matt. 10.5– Parable of the “good Samaritan” – Luke 10.25-37– Only the Samaritan leper came back to thank

Jesus – Luke 17.11-19– Here He teaches them and many believed– Put them second in line to receive the gospel –

Acts 1.8

The Conversation

• Living Water• The Prophet• The Worship• The Messiah

The Living Water

• A gift from Christ – “…He would have given you living water…”

– This is speaking of the Holy Spirit – John 7.37-39

• John 14, 15, 16• Acts 2.38; John 3.5• Samaritans receive it – Acts 8

The Living Water

• John 4:13-14 Jesus answered and said to her, "Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, (14) but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life."

The Prophet

• “Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet…”

– Made apparent by His knowledge of her life

• Reminder that the law of marriage is not just for those under the Law or in Christ• From the beginning…

The Worship

• John 4:21-24 Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. (22) You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. (23) But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. (24) God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."

The Worship

• Eph 2:11-13 Therefore remember that you, once Gentiles in the flesh--who are called Uncircumcision by what is called the Circumcision made in the flesh by hands-- (12) that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world. (13) But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

The Worship

• Eph 2:14-16 For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation, (15) having abolished in His flesh the enmity, that is, the law of commandments contained in ordinances, so as to create in Himself one new man from the two, thus making peace, (16) and that He might reconcile them both to God in one body through the cross, thereby putting to death the enmity.

The Worship

• John 4:23-24 “But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. (24) God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."

The Worship

• “…in spirit…”

– As opposed to ignorant worship– As opposed to ritual

The Worship

• “…in spirit…”– From the heart…

Mat 15:7-8 Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying: (8) 'THESE PEOPLE DRAW NEAR TO ME WITH THEIR MOUTH, AND HONOR ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR FROM ME…”

The Worship

• “…in spirit…”– From the heart…

Mat 18:35 "So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses."

The Worship

• “…in spirit…”– From the heart…

Rom 6:17 But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.

The Worship

• “…in spirit…”– From the heart…

Eph 6:6 “not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart…”

The Worship

• “…in truth…”

– As opposed to ignorant worship– As opposed to vain, self-imposed worship

The Worship

• “…in truth…”

John 17:17 Sanctify them by Your truth. Your word is truth.

• John 8:31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who believed Him, "If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed.”

The Messiah

• "I who speak to you am He.“

– Great expectation of all time– One of the rare times when Jesus states it– Many believed