Jesus Gives Living Water: Part 4

John’s Inspired Account of the Samaritan Woman

This particular section here as the Apostle John inspired by the Holy Spirit gives it.

To us.

And here we have a Samaritan woman meets her Messiah. Therefore, when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, though Jesus himself did not baptize but his disciples, he left Judea and departed again to Galilee.

But he needed to go through Samaria. So he came to a city of Samaria, which is called Saqar, near the plot of the ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Now Jacob's whale was there and Jesus, therefore, being wearied from his journey, sat thus by the whale and it was about the sixth hour, about noontime.

A woman of Samaria came to draw water and Jesus said to her, give me a drink. For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food and the woman of Samaria said to him, how is it that you being a Jew ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?

For the Jews have no dealing with the Samaritans. Jesus answered and said to her, if you knew the gift of God and who it is who says to you give me a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.

The woman said to him, sir, you have nothing to draw with and the whale is deep. Where then do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob who gave us the whale and drank from it himself as well as the sons of his livestock?

Jesus answered and said to her, whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, 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 woman said to him, sir, give me this water that I may not thirst nor come here to draw. Jesus said to her, go call your husband and come here. The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, you have well said, I have no husband, for you have had five husbands and the one whom you now have is not your husband and that you truly spoke.

The woman said to him, sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. Our fathers worshipped on this mountain and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship. Jesus said to her, woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem worship the father.

You worship what you do not know and we know that we worship for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour is coming and now is when the true worshippers will worship the father in spirit and in truth for the father is seeking such to worship him.

God is spirit and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and truth. The woman said to him, I know that Messiah is coming who is called Christ. When he comes, he will tell us all things. Jesus said to her, I who speak to you am he.

The Weight of the Gospel and the Need for Living Water

May God bless the reading of his word from our ears to our hearts this morning. Please bow with me in prayer as we seek the Lord's face and the remaining of this service as we hear from heaven. And may God bless the reading of his word once again within the hour of worship here.

Our father and our God, we thank you every hour that you have given unto us. As the wonderful hymn says, we need thee every hour, most gracious Lord. No tender voice like thine can peace afford, most holy one.

Oh, make me thine indeed, thou blessed son. Father, we pray within this hour that you would speak to our hearts and father, by the blessed Holy Spirit, drive it to our hearts that we may not be just hearers of thy word, but to be doers of it.

And as David cried out to you in Psalm 119, in Psalm 19, let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, oh Lord. In your sight, oh Lord, my strength and my redeemer.

We ask this for your honor and glory in Jesus' name, amen. Now, let me begin by mentioning once again a quote. I've kind of condensed it a little bit more here than I did last week, but it bears repeating again from Pastor John MacArthur as I was studying this from his commentary concerning this particular section with Jesus' encounter with the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well.

This is what he says, quote, the story of the Samaritan woman reinforces John's main theme that Jesus is the Messiah. Jesus is the Messiah and the Son of God. He goes on to say the thrust of these verses is not so much her conversion, but that Jesus is Messiah.

Verse 26, while her conversion is clearly implied, the Apostle's focus centers on Jesus' declaration foretold in the scriptures in verse 25. Important also is the fact that this chapter demonstrates Jesus' love and understanding of people.

His love for mankind involved no boundaries, for he lovingly and compassionately reached out to a woman who was a social outcast. And he says this in the last sentence, in contrast to the limitations of human love, Christ exhibits the character of divine love that is indiscriminate and all-encompassing, end quote.

And that is so well said. And this is actually what this particular section is speaking of. It's all about the Messiah, who Jesus is. Dare we just focus on the woman, even though she's involved in the story.

She's a social outcast. She's a half-breed, a mix of Assyrian, which is Gentile, and Jewish blood, and therefore the Jews rejected her. And she was converted to Christ. She was totally changed by the power of God and His mercy.

But really, the one we focus on is the Lord Jesus Christ. He's our focal point. Let me backtrack a little bit as we're going through the Gospel of John, chapter 3. We're reminded in verse 16 as which is the most familiar verse in the entirety of Scripture.

And it's scary that it's preached so much that most don't really get the depth of this verse, because it has great depth. For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believes in Him, there it is, believes in Him, should not perish but have everlasting life.

It goes on to say this in verse 17. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. This is why our Lord came. He came to be a Savior. He's Lord and Savior.

And the next time He comes, this is at His first advent, the next time He comes in power and glory, He comes to judge. And that's going to happen very soon. But here, grace and truth came through Christ.

The law was given through Moses. The law condemns. But we need the law to show us our sin. We need to see who we really are in the light of God's law and God's word. We have fallen short and come short of the glory of God.

We've all missed the mark. But Christ came to save us, okay? That's why you see the gospel and what the gospel is about. It's a Savior. Christ is a Savior. A great Savior. He saves to the uttermost. And the apostles and all in the New Testament points us to the cross.

That's the purpose. And verse 18, Jesus says, He who believes in Him is not condemned. He's not condemned, if you're a believer. But he who does not believe is condemned already. So that condemnation is already there.

It's as the wrath of God already abides on those that do not believe. And then He says, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. That is the words of Jesus Christ. And we literally see this great love of God that's demonstrated in Jesus Christ the Messiah here in the gospels, but here in this particular section as He reaches out and seeks out the Samaritan woman and in John chapter 4.

It's a wonderful story, isn't it? And there's so much to glean from. And I'm telling you, what we have been going through each Lord's day as we break this up precept by precept, verse by verse, line by line, there is no way that we can even scratch the surface of all that is packed in it because it is the eternal word of God.

But we can gather some jewels here and pray by God's Holy Spirit that we can take it to our hearts. And may it transform us. We have seen that Jesus makes contact with this Samaritan woman in verses 1 to 9 of chapter 4.

And let me pick up in verse 4. And I'm going to recap a little bit here today. So this is so important as we lead to our conclusion. Verse 4 says, but he needed to go through Samaria. The Old King James Version says he must needs go there.

Must needs. The journey to Samaria was a divine assignment. It was a divine arrangement by our Lord Himself. He was compelled to go. It was appointed by the divine providence of God that he would meet with her.

And the necessity lies in the mission of Jesus Christ. This was His mission. He came to seek and save that which was lost. He must go to Samaria. He must go to see a woman in Samaria. Jesus didn't take the usual route as we know in the road to Galilee.

The Jews in Judea at that time hardly would ever travel to Galilee through Samaria. And they would take a much longer route through another area, Perea. And they completely bypassed the region. But here, however, we see Jesus had to pass through Samaria.

He unpurposely went this way. It was a divine must. Let's keep that in mind. This is a divine must. This is Jesus' mission. He come to seek and save souls, particularly His own sheep. And His sheep hears His voice.

Jesus made an intentional break. I love this. An intentional break in His ministry in Judea. And He returned to work in Galilee in His ministry. And Judea had rejected Him as the Messiah. We already see that they rejected Him because their hearts were hardened.

And they were indifferent toward who He was as the Messiah. Even though all the prophecies of the Old Testament, the prophets spoke of His coming, all the way from Genesis, all the way throughout all the Old Testament scriptures foretold Him coming, they still were blinded to Him and who He is and who He was.

John 1, 11 tells us, as we looked at this, let me repeat it again. He came to His own and His own did not receive Him. His own did not receive Him. Verse 12, but as many as received Him, to them He gave the right or the privilege to become children of God to those who believe in His name.

So we see His own people rejects Him. His own people rejects Him. The Jews rejected Him. The religious people of His day rejected Him. He's a man of sorrows. He's rejected. He's despised. But yet we see, even though through the rejection of the Jews, in this story we see a very immoral social outcast, a Samaritan woman, receives Him.

Isn't that wonderful? She's an outcast. The Jews had no dealings with them. This woman is very immoral. As we read the text, she's had five husbands and the person and the man that she's living with now is not her husband.

And does that mean that God is going along with that? By no means. We will see this in a minute. Christ points out her sin lovingly, graciously, and gentle as a dove, as the Spirit of God works through the God-man as a Savior, brings her to Himself.

But we see His own people rejected Him and this woman here believes Him as the Messiah. And then we come to verse 5 and 6. So He came to a city of Samaria, which is called Saqqara, near the plot of the ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.

In verse 6, now Jacob's well was there. This is the meeting place. And Jesus is actually waiting on her. Jesus, therefore, being wearied from His journey, sat thus by the well, and it was about the sixth hour.

That was noontime, the hottest time of the day. And it's amazing that Jesus chooses the illustration or the subject of water. As I mentioned last week, isn't it interesting? Everybody loves water just about.

Everybody loves to gravitate toward water, build their houses as close to water. You go to the beaches, they love to build near the ocean. And you go to the mountaintops and they love to build close to water.

Water is magnetic, isn't it?

It's magnetic.

And Jesus chooses this subject because without water, we waste away, we would die physically. We need it. It's a necessity. And for a long time in this conversation, she's thinking about physical water, but Jesus points her to the direction of the spiritual living water.

As much as we need physical water, but can I tell you this, beloved? Our greatest need is spiritual living water. That is our greatest need. That is the need of the lost and dying world that is trying to go everywhere and look in every place without looking to Christ.

They want to look at the things of the world. And beloved, you and I know this, that the things of this world can never satisfy us. Only Christ can. So the scripture tells us that Jesus is wearied from his journey.

He sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour. He's weary. Now, John, the apostle, constantly brings out the deity of Jesus and he makes us very aware that Christ is deity.

He is divine.

He is God in flesh. No doubt about it. But he also here, especially in the gospel of Luke, tells more of the son of man. John focuses Jesus as the son of God, but he does here give us a glimpse that he's truly man as well as truly God.

Or holy man as holy God. He got tired. He got weary. And while Jesus is sitting there, a Samaritan woman came to draw water from Jacob's cistern. And we looked at that about the cisterns from Jeremiah last Lord's day.

And it's this is so intriguing here because verse seven says a woman of Samaria came to draw water and Jesus said to her, give me a drink. And this is how this whole conversation begins is give me a drink.

Give me a drink. Jewish rabbis would never speak to a woman in public.

No they wouldn't.

Even their own wives and daughters and sisters they would not speak to. This woman was a Samaritan, a rejected half-breed, immoral woman. Moreover, the Jews would not even drink from a Samaritan's vessel for fear of becoming ceremonially unclean.

That's why the Jews would not even drink from their vessel, unclean. And here we see Jesus breaks barriers. Aren't you glad?

He breaks the barriers.

He breaks through. And can I tell you this? This is after five centuries, 500 years of hostility and hatred that Jesus broke the barrier that afternoon in the mid-hot sun with a simple request, give me a drink.

He speaks to this outcast.

He breaks through.

You know he upset the religious crowd constantly. The self-righteous Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Sanhedrin, they were just constantly trying to trap him. And Jesus would always come with a question and his perfect wisdom and put them on the spot on the hot seat so that they would search their own hearts.

And Jesus knew their hearts were hardened. Therefore, isn't it amazing? He was criticized that he was a friend of sinners. That doesn't mean he was partaking of their sins, folks. Don't ever think of that.

We're talking about the sinless Savior here. The sinless Son of God. The Son of Man. And he goes there and he reaches into the darkest of places and pulls them out and changes them. So for what? How are they changed?

They must come to repentance. They must be changed. There must be a heart transformation. Well we know in verse 8 that the disciples had gone away to the city to buy food. In verse 9, then the woman of Samaria said to him, how is it that you being a Jew ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?

And say, she knows. She's asking the question. You're a Jew. She was surprised that Jesus even spoke to her. For the Jews had no dealings with the Samaritans. Verse 10 says, Jesus answered and said to her, and I love this, and we looked at this in detail last Lord's Day, but if, Jesus says to her, if you knew, if she knew, if she had some knowledge of who he really is, if you knew the gift of God, we know Christ is the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, give me a drink.

You would have asked him and he would have given you living water. And Jesus lifts the conversation with the Samaritan woman at a higher level by answering her question, if you knew the gift of God. Living water.

And Jesus here introduces to her the living water, springing up, unfailing source of, to ever flowing of eternal life. Jesus said this in John chapter 7, verse 37, 39, a wonderful reference to this text here on that last day, that great day of the feast.

And you could just picture it in your mind's eye, Jesus stood and he cried out. He cried out, saying, if anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. And who believes in me, and he who believes in me, as the scripture has said, out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.

And then verse 39 says, but this he spoke concerning the spirit whom those believing in him would receive for the Holy Spirit was not yet given because Jesus was not yet glorified. So we know here from the reference of scripture that as Christ, after he died and was buried and resurrected, he goes to the Father, he's glorified in power, and he goes to the right hand of the Father.

And as John chapter 13, 14, 15, 16, those great verses there, those great chapters tells us about the coming of the Holy Spirit, the promise of the Father, that we would need the Holy Spirit of God comes as Christ sends this promise of the Father.

Now beloved, before we are willing to receive God's gift, we need to, he has to reveal to us our great need of our hearts that we are sinners in an acute, we need an acute thirst, we have an acute thirst, I should say, for the water of life.

And isn't it wonderful, the scripture says, he who desires to drink of the water of life, let him come. The invitation is there, let him come. And as scripture also says, let's interpret scripture as scripture, there's no one that actually can come to the Father unless what?

The Spirit draws him. And we looked at that word draw, literally means drags him. You know why? Because people, we are all born with Adam's sin and a tendency to do our own thing naturally, we have no desire to seek God whatsoever, and that's what scripture says.

There's none who seeks God, no not one. So who's the seeker here? God the Father. And God the Father sent his Son, and Jesus comes to reveal who the Father really is. He's that bridge between the holiness of God and the sinfulness of man, the exceedingly sinfulness of man, I should say, and the most holy God, I should say.

And there's only one that can gap it, and that's the cross, and that's Christ, and that's what he came to do. He's the mediator between man and God, the man Christ Jesus. And there's no other name under heaven whereby man can be saved unless he comes through Jesus Christ.

Now this, this is what Christ came to do for this woman, Samaria. She was not saved because of her seeking, no sir. You can't prove that through scripture. She was sought out by the seeker himself. I like what A .W. Pink says right here.

A .W. Pink says, quote, it was not Adam, it was not Adam who sought God, but God who sought Adam. And this has been the order ever since.

Amen?

That's been the order ever since. When God called out and says, Adam, where art thou? God knew exactly where Adam was. You know really what he was asking that question as a great parent. He was saying he wanted Adam to know where he was.

The Water Pot, the Thirst of the Soul, and Christ’s Living Water

Well, as we continue, the woman's response is quite interesting. Verse 11, notice. In verse 11, the woman said to him, sir, you have nothing to draw with. The well is deep. Where then do you get that living water?

You see here, what do you have to draw with? Where's your water pot? That's what she's really asking. So do you have any water pots in your life? Think about that for a second. We get, you know, we get so occupied with water pots, don't we?

We cannot hear the voice of God, the still small voice of God. So many distractions. That's like a distraction in this world.

Even the good things. Even good things.

We need to be careful, beloved. You remember the story of Mary and Martha? You know, Mary was cumbered about with much busyness, and the Lord was really not against her serving, really, if you look at the text.

But her priority was out of line, and Mary had her priority in line. Mary was at the feet of Jesus, and Jesus said, and Martha comes to Jesus and says, really, and I paraphrase it, he said, she's basically, I'm doing all the work here.

I'm busy in the kitchen. I need help. And Jesus says, Mary's chosen the best part.

The best.

Don't you want God's best? And God's best is at the feet of Jesus, folks. And we need to be careful not allow these water pots in our life to distract us in this world, even the good things, and can distance us from God.

Well-intended things, such as taking care of our family, obligations, work, making a living. We can get so caught up in those things and leave God out and forget God. Do you have any water pots in your life that is distracting you from God and spending time with God?

So these things simply keep our souls so occupied so that we are not concentrating on the presence of God and who God really is. Those things that crowd out God. Those things that even in our work, I struggle with this constantly.

I said, Lord, help me to stay focused. When I do my work, I do it unto you. Help me, Lord, to have my labor and worship to you. And singing praises to you and glorifying you. And everything that I do, because in Him we live and move and have our being.

May God help us to keep that priority right. Matthew 6 .33, Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. That's what Scripture says. His righteousness and all these other things will be added unto you.

The Lord will take care of us. And that doesn't mean we throw away our work. Actually, the Scripture says if we don't work, we're worse than our infidel. If we do not provide for our family. God created work.

Somebody said to me one day, your work is a curse. No, work is not a curse. God, Adam was working before sin came into the world, folks. God created work for him to keep the garden. But sin came into a perfect environment.

You know what it caused? Frustration, the sweat of the brow. Women bearing children in pain. Can you imagine if sin did not come into the world that women would have children without pain? That's hard for us to conceive because we're so enveloped into sin and depraved.

It's hard for us to even realize the absence of sin. But that's the way heaven is going to be. Totally absent from sin. Well, sin came into a garden of Eden. But Christ came to reverse the curse. Aren't you glad?

We need to be careful that we do not allow these water pots to crowd out our time with God and spend time with Him and His presence. Only Jesus can satisfy the thirsty soul. Look at verse 13. Verse 13 is a very important verse.

Jesus answered and said to her, whoever drinks of this water will thirst again. Will thirst again. What's he saying? You can actually see him pointing to Jacob's well and say, this water, if you drink this water here, you're going to thirst again.

But, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give, him will never thirst. You want that kind of water? But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.

Praise God. C .H. Spurgeon said this on verse 13. Quote, he says, all things that are of earth are unsatisfactory.

All things.

Our spirit craves for something more than time and sense can yield. But nothing that comes of earth, even if it should yield its transcendent satisfaction, cannot maintain its excellence for long. And he goes on to say this, pointing to the water in Jacob's well, our Lord says, everyone who drinks from this water will get thirsty again.

And then he says, therein he took up his parable against all earthly things, whether fame or riches or fleshly pleasures or anything else beneath the sun. And he says, whosoever drinks at this shallow wells will not quench but thirst.

But for a time, he imagines that he has done so. He will be deceived. And in a little season, the old craving will return. Waters from his own cistern may stay a man's desires for a while. But before long, he must thirst again.

Amen.

Nothing in this world can satisfy us. That's why Christ, and there is only that cavity that God has put within the heart of man, eternity is in the heart of men, that only Christ can satisfy. Only Christ.

And when...

Only the Spirit of God can break through these barriers, folks. It has to be the supernatural power of God to change a person's heart. Because no one can do this within themselves. So that's a gift of God.

Christ Confronts Sin and Reveals Himself as Messiah

Verse 16. Let me back up. Verse 15 through 20, Jesus actually confronts, convicts the Samaritan woman of her sin. And then we eventually see it goes from conversation to confrontation. And you have conviction as well.

Verse 16, Jesus said to her, go call your husband and come here. Go call your husband and come here. Isn't this interesting? Now since the woman failed to understand the nature of living water,.

She didn't really get it.

She's still thinking about physical water that He offered to her. In verse 15, Jesus in perfect, as perfect wisdom and witnessing, and being a winsome soul winner here, as the Master only is, He abruptly turned the dialogue to focus sharply on her spiritual need for conversion.

We can learn much from this. And from conversion to her cleansing from her sin. Only Christ can do this by the power of the Spirit. Beloved, this is what true love does. Let me point this out for a second.

There's this thing today that, and this is nothing new under the sun, of course, with people's misconception of who God is. Having a right view of God is critical, folks. And the only way we can have a right view of God is that we saturate ourselves in this book and on our knees and ask the Spirit of God to give us a right view of God.

Low views. There's too many low views of God. That's the problem. We must have a high, lofty view of God and who He is. And folks, I bring this out because true love, God's holy love, God's divine love confronts sin.

Not in a mean way. Not harshly. But notice Jesus never used the word anything here to condemn this woman. He graciously led her in great love and wisdom. He's the master soul winner. He leads. Love warns.

Love always warns. Why? Because souls are endangered. People are going to hell, folks. Ravenhill said, he said this, and this is very sober. He said, the Jehovah Witnesses is a cult, and they don't believe in hell.

And he said, sad to say, most Christians don't either. That's sobering, isn't it? But we do need to examine ourselves and know if we truly believe that there is a real hell and people are heading there to hell, we would take this very seriously.

And we would take God seriously. And we would take soul winning seriously. Jesus took it seriously. After all, He came, look at what He did. He came from heaven to earth in which He created and took the sin to the cross.

Took your sin, my sin. But here He lovingly, winsomely confronts her sin. The Lord's knowledge of her. That of her morally being depraved. Not only indicated His supernatural ability, but also it focused on her spiritual condition.

But I love this, that He knew everything about this woman. She didn't know this at the time, but He loved her the most. Verse 17, the woman answered and said, I have no husband, Jesus said to her, you have well said.

At least she was honest about it. She was honest in her. There's hope for her. I have no husband, Jesus said, for you have had five husbands, the one whom you now have is your husband, and that you spoke truly.

MacArthur once again notes here that she was living with a man who Jesus said was not her husband. By such an explicit statement, our Lord rejected the notion that when the two people live together, it constitutes marriage.

Biblically, marriage is always restricted to a public, formal, official, and recognized covenant. End quote. That's why we have those covenants and those marriages publicly before God and man. Because God takes it serious.

Verse 19, His knowledge of her life also indicates that He had supernatural inspiration and yet He knows everything about us and He's the one that loves us the most. Keep that in mind, folks. He loves you more than, yes, if you love yourself.

And that's the problem. We love ourselves too much, don't we? But God, through Jesus Christ, loves you the most. That's why Peter says, cast all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.

He loves you.

He cares for you. Well, verse 20, the Samaritan woman intentionally changes the course of the conversation because she's convicted. She's convicted. Notice verse 21. Well, verse 20. Our fathers worshipped on this mountain.

Notice right between 19 the woman said to Him, Sir, I perceive that you're a prophet. And right there, our fathers worshipped on this mountain. Notice how she changed the conversation. She intentionally did this because there's conviction of her sin.

And then she starts to talk religious, so to speak. And this place, this place, this place of worship where one ought to worship. And Jesus said to her in verse 21, He says, Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you and others on this mountain or Jerusalem worship the Father.

You know what Jesus is basically saying in essence? The place is not what really matters.

She wanted to debate that.

That's not really what matters here. So Jesus gets to the point. He avoids the debate with her in a gracious way, by the way. He doesn't come out and say, Miss, I'm not going to debate you right now on this.

He wasn't harsh with her. He just basically, lovingly,.

Tenderly.

Changes the course. And look at how He does it. Woman, believe me. He says, believe me. The hour is coming when you and others on this mountain or in Jerusalem worship the Father. Jesus is basically saying it's not the place that really matters.

It's who you worship. And He says, you worship what you do not know. See, He told a very simple pointed fact. The Samaritans really didn't have that knowledge of worship because remember what we talked about?

The only books of the Bible that they looked at as inspired the Samaritans was the Pentateuch.

That's it.

But you take the prophets and all that knowledge of God and the Bible does say that my people perish because of lack of knowledge.

Right?

Jesus has given her the knowledge and basically He says we know what we worship for salvation is of the Jews. It's to the Jew first. God chose the Jewish race and it started at Abraham. God revealed Himself through Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and those great patriarchs.

And then Jesus says in verse 23 but the hour is coming and now is when the true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is spirit and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and truth.

You know what I love about this? Jesus has given some of the greatest revelation to a immoral woman. To a woman. Not to a theologian. Not to the Sanhedrin. No. He gives it to an outcast. He reveals great revelation to her.

And she's an outcast immoral woman. Isn't that incredible? How loving is the Lord? Well, Jesus clearly forthrightly declared Himself to be the Messiah. Verse 25 the woman said to Him I know that Messiah is coming who is called Christ the anointed one.

And says this when He comes He will tell us all things. And right in verse 26 Jesus specifically clearly says this He said to her I who speak to you am He.

I'm Him.

I'm the Messiah. Wow. To a Samaritan woman.

And you know.

The story, what happens, her conversion takes place. Verse 27. At this point His disciples came and they marvelled they were amazed that He talked with a woman yet no one said what do you seek or why are you talking with her.

Verse 27. Verse 28. The woman then left her water pot. She forgot why she came folks. Because there was a transformation. She left that water pot that water pot of the world. She forsook it. And as we should we should forsake the things of the world.