When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,
2 (Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,)
Only His Disciples Baptized...amazing fact...Had Jesus Baptized them...I wonder what would have happened...but He didn't according to Verse 2...so at that cause it appears He leaves Judaea.
3 He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee.
4 And he MUST NEEDS go through Samaria.
Now JESUS CHRIST absolutely had to go to SYCHAR of Samaria to have this conversation with this woman. It was what some call divine intervention...Indeed beyond perceptions of any this is evident for it was a Must Need and being wearied in resting from his journey such as this with all intentions was no coincidence for there is none when you are a Child of the KING...
5 Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
Yes the Joseph, of whom had the coat of many colors...
6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being WEARIED with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
8 (For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)
9 Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have NO DEALINGS with the Samaritans.
This is a racist, bias, descrimatory, or a shameful thing for a JEW to have dealing with the Samaritans...Read between the lines...the Jews were in fact superior, hence why his Disciples Marveled he talked with this type or Stereo-Type, if you please, Woman...It was not accepted at all and a demeaning thing to do...it would appear you would not value yourself if you were a Jew and spoke to these people...why Is a ponder...a good study indeed...and At that this is a woman which was wayward in her ways of marriage and was not even married...But Jesus Again proves He knew Everything about her THOUGH SHE BE NOT A JEW...again the BEAUTY of this IS JESUS WOULD NOT YIELD to PEER PRESSURE...or lets say the EXPECTED...He always DEFIES this FACT in MANY MANY instances to this DAY and is still doing it...That is what He is proving more than anything...AND Paul concludes even more when He Wrote the Romans in 1:16 of the Book of Romans "To EVERY ONE THAT Believeth"...
10 Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou KNEWEST the GIFT OF GOD, and WHO IT IS THAT SAITH TO THEE, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked OF! HIM!, and HE would have GIVEN THEE LIVING WATER.
11 The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?
12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of THIS water SHALL THIRST again:
14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I SHALL GIVE him shall NEVER thirst; BUT the water that I shall give him SHALL BE IN HIM A WELL OF WATER SPRINGING UP INTO EVERLASTING LIFE!
15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: IN THAT saidst thou truly.
I can't help but feel this woman was either ashamed of her past life or had a problem with LYING for JESUS made a point to say "IN THAT saidst thou TRULY." There is a point He was telling her...For He knows the thoughts and intents of the heart...whether of fear or the fact of peer pressures...I take it due to so many husbands she was not so much favored in the city of Sychar...I can see the other husbands wives despising her...due to the way of life of which she led...she was looked at as one not to socialize with due to her erratic behaviors and wayward life...
19 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
21 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, BELIEVE ME, the hour cometh, when ye shall NEITHER in this mountain, nor YET AT JERUSALEM, worship the Father.
22 YE WORSHIP YE KNOW NOT WHAT: we know what we worship: FOR SALVATION IS OF THE JEWS.
Romans 1:16~For I am not ashamed of the GOSPEL OF CHRIST: for it is the POWER OF GOD unto SALVATION to EVERY ONE THAT BELIEVETH; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
23 But the hour cometh, and NOW IS, when the TRUE WORSHIPPERS shall worship the Father IN SPIRIT and IN TRUTH: for the FATHER SEEKETH such to worship him.
24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him MUST worship him in SPIRIT and in TRUTH.
You cannot be a dishonest person before GOD and expect your worship to come before His Throne and be effective...such as "In Earth as It is in Heaven" without PURENESS and Sincerity in ONES service and reverence to GOD it would be as a vain thing and be as nothing...such is evident in many ways ... Be one AFTER HIS OWN HEART always Repent and present a Living Sacrifice in Living and Going to Church and giving utmost time and meditation to GOD.
25 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
26 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee AM HE.
27 And upon this came his disciples, and MARVELLED that he talked with the woman: YET no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why talkest thou with her?
His disciples even Marvelled HE spoke with her due to the fact of being a Samaritan mainly...
28 The woman then left her waterpot, and went her way into the city, and saith to the men,
29 Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?
30 Then they went out of the city, and came unto him.
31 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.
32 But he said unto them, I have MEAT to eat THAT YE know NOTof.
33 Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat?
34 Jesus saith unto them, My MEAT is to do the WILL OF HIM that sent me, and to FINISH HIS WORK.
35 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields; FOR THEY ARE WHITE ALREADY to harvest.
36 And he that REAPETH RECEIVETH wages, and gathereth fruit UNTO LIFE ETERNAL: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth MAY REJOICE TOGETHER.
37 And herein is that saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
38 I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did.
So THE Almighty Jesus Christ Used this Samaritan woman to prove to ALL of SYCHAR of Samaria of Him and proved much more with this act of which EVEN his disciples MARVELLED that HE JUST SPOKE TO HER...
40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
41 And many more believed because of his own word;
42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.
43 Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee.
44 For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.
45 Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast.
46 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum.
When Jesus turned the water into wine that was His first Miracle...but IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT...it was the first one He did that was NOT secret...Think about it...THIS IS THE ALMIGHTY GOD for I know beyond a shadow of a doubt He did many by prayer and quietness and NO ONE ever KNEW it was HIM...BUT Him, A great Secret of HIS delight...There are many that Happen that would blow your minds at what HE does for those that LOVE Him With ALL THEIR heart, and they NO it NOT until their personal day of celebration comes in HEAVEN...that is why it is called heaven!...and give Him Praise, and HONOR for He LOVES IT...and He is always before YOU...for those that delight and not grudge Him OR His commandments but boast of His ways and BEING THE ONLY LIVING GOD...For He always is as JOHN 10:4 and He is the Door for more than you know...
47 When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.
48 Then said Jesus unto him, Except ye see signs and wonders, ye will not believe.
49 The nobleman saith unto him, Sir, come down ere my child die.
50 Jesus saith unto him, Go thy way; thy son liveth. And the man believed the word that Jesus had spoken unto him, and he went his way.
51 And as he was now going down, his servants met him, and told him, saying, Thy son liveth.
52 Then enquired he of them the hour when he began to amend. And they said unto him, Yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him.
53 So the father knew that it was at the same hour, in the which Jesus said unto him, Thy son liveth: and himself believed, and his whole house.
54 This is again the second miracle that Jesus did, when he was come out of Judaea into Galilee.
