Give Me a Drink/Part Four
The "Red-Letter Words" of Jesus
Day 42
A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink." For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. Then the woman of Samaria said to him, "How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" For Jews have no dealings with 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 well is deep. Where then do You get that living water? Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?" John 4:9-12 NKJV)
I like this woman's feistiness. She certainly didn’t have an issue telling it like she saw it. Jesus asked for a drink, and she confronted Him about the propriety of a Jewish man talking with a Samaritan woman. Wouldn’t He be soiled through His association with a lowly Samaritan? Jesus chose to ignore her barbs.
(Although the Jews and Samaritans didn't like each other, she did exaggerate about the two groups interacting together. Despite their animosity, the disciples did go into the Samaritan village of Sychar to purchase food.)
Jesus turned the tables on her. He started His conversation by asking for a drink of water. Then He told her that, if she really knew Him, she would ask Him for a drink. He didn't offer her stagnant well water either but "living water" - fresh water flowing from eternal springs. Of course, Jesus spoke metaphorically of spiritual things.
Since her spiritual senses hadn’t engaged yet, she challenged Jesus's claim. Who did He think He was anyway? A gift of God? Yeh, right. Was He better than Jacob who dug the well? After all, the Samaritans were distant, mixed descendants of Jacob's. Besides, He didn’t even have a bucket or ladle to draw water for Himself or her. She was no fool.
She sounds like me before I became a Christian. I didn’t know who Jesus was either. I do recall mocking Him and His followers. I’m so thankful He opened my spiritual eyes to see Him as the one true gift from God offering eternal life.
Father, thank You that I can drink of eternal life through the gift of Your Son, Jesus Christ. Thank You for opening my understanding to spiritual things. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
https://biblehub/commentaries/barnes/John/4.htm
https://biblehub/commentaries//gill/John/4.htm
https://biblehub/commentaries/ellicott/John/4.htm
https://biblehub/commentaries/expsitors/John/4.htm
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