Thirsty

John 4

John 4

1Now when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus himself did not baptize, but only his disciples), 3 he left Judea and departed again for Galilee. 4 And he had to pass through Samaria.

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5 So he came to a town of Samaria called Sychar, near the field that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.

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6 Jacob's well was there; so Jesus, wearied as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well. It was about the sixth hour. (Noon)

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7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink.” 8 (For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.) 9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

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10 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.” 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob? He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.”

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13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”

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16 Jesus said to her, “Go, call your husband, and come here.” 17 The woman answered him, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “You are right in saying, ‘I have no husband’; 18 for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband. What you have said is true.”

Thirsty - A desire to drink

(slang (met)-

Much as someone could be described as salivating for something, being thirsty indicates an extreme want or need.

An overzealous desire, want, or greed for attention, sex, money, or fame. Usually characterized by desperate emotions and drastic actions, employing attention seeking behavior

A rabbi meets a single woman with a “past” alone at a well in the desert in the middle of the day.

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What’s wrong with that picture?

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Jesus brought his followers to a land in a “Post Jewish culture”

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How did he approach it? What happened?

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John 4:39 Many Samaritans from that town believed in him because of the woman's testimony, “He told me all that I ever did.” 40 So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. 41 And many more believed because of his word.

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Jesus has come for us “Thirsty” men and women living in an increasingly post “church” culture.

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Full of people that need to hear “He told me everything I ever did and loved me anyway.

He would do that for you too.

This is the reason for my hope.”

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Grateful people can’t help but share their gratefulness.