Talking With The Woman

The four gospels record number of the dialogues that Jesus had with different types of people, including: Jews or Gentiles, famous or unknown, rich or poor, healthy or sick. One of those wonderful dialogues, with a deep spiritual sense, Jesus said to the Samaritan woman (John 4:1-42).

The Samaritan woman had left his home carrying on his back an empty jar with all the utensils necessary to draw water from a deep well located on the outskirts of the city where he lived. On reaching the well, the Samaritan woman met a stranger who sat beside the well. This solitary stranger was Jesus, who was covered by road dust, tired, hungry and thirsty.

The Samaritan woman, set out to draw water from Jacob's well, ignoring the stranger as a man, a Jew and unknown. However, the Master of masters, breaking the silence and customs, asked a favor, saying, Woman, could you please give me a drink?

The Samaritan woman surprised Jesus answered, have an interesting dialogue. First the woman Jesus raised a delicate political and social issue, saying: How can you, a Jew, askest drink of me, a Samaritan woman? (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans each other). Then the Master of masters, tackling the issue from a spiritual angle, said Woman, if you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you to drink, you would have asked, and he would give you living water. The woman then changed its strategy to address the issue from a trivial point of view, saying, Lord, thou hast nothing to draw with and the well is deep. From whence then hast thou that living water?, And immediately after, the Samaritan woman change the tone of his voice in dialogue with a content-denominational Bible, saying, Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it himself, his children and his cattle? So Jesus, continuing his spiritual dialogue said: Everyone who drinks this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks the water I shall give him shall never thirst, but the water I give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.

Now visibly moved the Samaritan woman said to him: Lord, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. Then Jesus said unto him, Go, call thy husband, and come here. The woman answered and said I have no husband. Jesus said, Thou hast said: I have no husband, for you have had five husbands, and now hast is not thy husband, that you said truly. Then the woman decided to ask the teacher a theological issue, saying: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet, and taking this opportunity, I would like you to please clarify me a devotional architectural theme: Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you say that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. Jesus said, 'Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem worship the Father. Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is from the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is Spirit: and they that worship him in spirit and in truth it is necessary for worship.

Finally, the Samaritan woman of spirit rueful initiated a dialogue with a high spiritual saying, Lord, I know that Messiah is coming who is called Christ (and I think it's you), when it comes, He will declare all things. Whereupon Jesus said, deeply moved I am, who speak to you. If a woman, I am the Lord, I am the creator of the universe, I am the God of Abraham and Isaac. I am the God of the owner of this well (Jacob). I am the promised Messiah who came to fetch and save. The Samaritan woman no longer needed the water from the well of Jacob, because inside ran rivers of living water that flooded his whole being. The Samaritan woman was found among his spiritual desert to the rock of Horeb, from which the water flowed in abundance of eternal life. Now the woman believed that Jesus was his savior, and now inside running rivers of living water ( cf. John 7:38).

In this came the disciples of Jesus who had come to town to buy food, which were astonished to see Jesus talking to a pagan woman, but no one said, What seekest thou? Or, are you talking to her? Then the woman left her water jar went to empty the city, and told the men, Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Is not this the Christ? Then they went out of town, and came to him.

Meanwhile, the disciples begged Jesus to eat, but Jesus said: I have food to eat that ye know not. Then the disciples said to one another: Do you have brought something to eat? Jesus said unto them, My meat is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work. Say not ye, There are yet four months and then cometh harvest? I tell you, open your eyes and look on the fields, they are white already to harvest. And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that together with the sower reaps. For here the saying is true: 'One sows and another reaps. I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labor: other men labored, and ye are entered into their labors.

And many of the Samaritans of that city believed in Jesus through the word of the woman who testified, He told me everything I've done. Then came the Samaritans to him and begged him to stay with them, and he stayed there two days. And many more believed because of his word, and said to the woman, Now we believe, not what you said, because we ourselves have heard, and we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world, the Christ (cf. John 4:1 -42).

Today, like the Samaritan woman, many people go to look for water in the Scriptures, but entertaining historical subjects trivial grounds, socio-political, biblical, doctrinal, theological, legal, architectural, or even devotional ... find water running out of spiritual life which flows in abundance from the Rock of Salvation, which is Christ Jesus. In fact, it reads the life of Adam knowing that Jesus is the second Adam, who have not been deceived, agreed to be made sin. Jesus is the true Noah saved his family from the flood of sin. Jesus is the Ark that prevents the extinction of life on planet earth. Jesus is the true Moses frees his people from the bondage of sin. So Jesus said and constantly repeated, I am the door, I am the way, I am the truth, I am life, I am the bread, I am the water, I am the light, I am the Shekinah, I am the lamb, I am the high priest, I am the temple, I am the Passover, I'm the break, I'm the only one, I am the first and last, I am the beginning (Genesis) and the end (at Revelation), I am the alpha (abc ...) and Omega (... xyz) of the word of God.

I am the Word made flesh [1].

Jorge R. Talbot

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[1] The Holy Scriptures were written for the Messiah, our mission is to find on every page. Jorge R. Talbot, Lulu Publishing, 2011.