Show Don't Tell: John 4:5-26

Instead of saying "Jesus met a Samaritan woman at Jacob's well," feel the midday heat. He comes to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob's well is there, and Jesus, tired from the journey, sits down by the well. It is about noon—the sixth hour. A Samaritan woman comes to draw water. Noon—not the cool morning when other women come. She comes alone. "Will you give me a drink?" His disciples have gone into town to buy food. "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" Jews don't associate with Samaritans. "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water." "Sir, you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well?" "Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life." "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water." "Go, call your husband and come back." "I have no husband." "You are right when you say you have no husband. The fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your husband." She tries to deflect to theological debate—worship on this mountain versus Jerusalem. Jesus: "A time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in the Spirit and in truth." "I know that Messiah is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us." "I, the one speaking to you—I am he."