Uncommon Boldness
“The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John, although in
fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples. When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea
and went back once more to Galilee.
Now he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the
plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he
was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, ‘Will you give me a drink?’
(His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, ‘You are
a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink? (For Jews do not
associate with Samaritans.)
Jesus answered her, ‘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,’ the woman said, ‘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 and drank from it himself, as did also his
sons and his flocks and herds?’
Jesus answered, ‘Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the
water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of
water welling up to eternal life.
The woman said to him, ‘Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep
coming here to draw water.’ He told her, ‘Go, call your husband and come back.’ ‘I have no
husband,’ she replied. Jesus said to her, ‘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. What you
have said is quite true.’
‘Sir,’ the woman said, ‘I can see that you are a prophet…I know that the Messiah (called the
Christ) is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.’ Then Jesus declared, ‘I who
speak to you am he.’
Just then his disciples returned and were surprised to find him talking with a woman. But no one
asked, ‘What do you want?’ or ‘Why are you talking with her?’ Then, leaving her water jar, the
woman went back to the town and said to the people, ‘Come, see a man who told me everything
I ever did. Could this be the Christ?’” John 4:1-19 & 25-28
1. Jesus broke the ice and offered her a picture into the Father’s heart
“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. What you have said is quite true.” John 4:17-18
“If you knew the gift of God who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he
would given you living water.” John 4:10
2. As Jesus shared, he offered her a drink from the well that never runs dry
“Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him
will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to
eternal life.” John 4:13
“The woman said, ‘I know the Messiah’ (called the Christ) is coming. When he comes, he will
explain everything to us.’ Then Jesus declared, ‘I who speak to you am he.’” John 4:25-26
3. Living water cannot be contained.
“Then leaving her water jar, the woman went back to the town and said to the people, ‘Come,
see a man who told me everything I ever did. Could this be the Christ?’” John 4:28
“Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman’s testimony. ‘He
told me everything I ever did.’ So when the Samaritans came to him, they urged him to stay
with them, and he stayed two days. And because of his words, many more became believers.”
John 4:29-31