Samaritan woman at the well

You know, you end up with a half a dozen, you end up with over a dozen different parallels between this woman's own unfortunate life experience and the unfortunate historical downfall of Samaria.

And so this is Saint Photina.

Yeah.

She is to the Samaritans in the first century a kind of Mary Magdalene figure.

This is an interesting story.

You remember the story, Woman of the Well? She said, we worship in the mountains, you all worship in the temple, in Jerusalem.

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Both of them are wrong.

It took me three years to realize this.

But John chapter 4 comes after John chapter 3, and I think John is actually doing something to try to produce a contrast between the woman at the well and Nicodemus.

And John does this all over the place.

When you start to read John, you start actually realizing he places stories next to each other to...

And if you don't read The Woman at the Well in its context, you actually miss some really important things that John is trying to do there.

So I think that this first series is really important and something that, once again, with our close our eyes, point at a passage and hope that that's what God is speaking to me.

We can miss a lot there.

We, and just stay with us, okay? Saint Fotini, a.k.a.

the woman at the well.

Ooh.

The Gospel of John.

So if you've read the Gospel or the Bible, or even just seen like any Bible story movie, you know, The Chosen or anything, a lot of people who are Christians are familiar with The Woman at the Well.

They actually had the correct name for her on The Chosen.

Yes.

It does not say her name in the Bible.

And Jesus said unto her, "Give me water that I may drink." And his disciples had entered into the city to buy for themselves food.

And that Samaritan woman said unto him, "How dost thou, being a Jew, ask me to give thee to drink while I am a Samaritan woman?" And the Jews mingle not with Samaritans.

Jesus answered and said unto her, "If thou knewest the gift of God and who this is that said unto thee, 'Give me to drink,' thou wouldest ask him, and he would give thee the water of life." That woman said unto him, "My Lord, thou hast no bucket, and the well is deep.

From whence hast thou the water of life? Can it be that thou art greater than our father Jacob who gave us this well and drank from it, and his children, and his sheep?" Jesus answered and said unto her, "Every one that drinketh of this water shall thirst again.