You worship what you do not know we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews. Our fathers worshiped on this mountain and you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship." Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father. Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband and come here." The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, `I have no husband ’ for you have had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband this you said truly." The woman said to him, "Sir, I perceive that you are a prophet. The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, his sons, and his cattle?" Jesus said to her, "Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give will never thirst the water that I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life." The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, that I may not thirst, nor come here to draw water." Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,' you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water." The Samaritan woman said to him, "How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?" For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink." For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. There came a woman of Samaria to draw water. Jacob's well was there, and so Jesus, wearied as he was with his journey, sat down beside the well. So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the field that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph. Filled with his acceptance and realizing she had found someone who could fulfill her deepest longings, she runs to others to spread the good news. In turn, he offers her more, an invitation to get in touch with the thirst in her soul which she had tried to satisfy with multiple love affairs. So she is comfortable enough to offer him a drink of water. She was already vulnerable because of her past and when she meets this man, Jesus, she could immediately recognize his acceptance. She is surprised to encounter a man, and even more a Jewish man, who initiates a conversation with her. This Samaritan woman goes to the well in the heat of the day most likely because she wanted to avoid running into others who would look on her as a tainted woman. Third Sunday of Lent: The Woman at the Well
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