Today, I am reading and commenting on  John 4-5.

We can learn a lot of lessons from John’s account of Jesus’ meeting with the Samaritan woman at the well.  First, we should notice that the woman was “the sort” of woman to whom someone who wanted to have a good reputations should not be seen talking.  Jesus didn’t care, and no one dare question Him on it.  Not only did Jesus speak with a woman of questionable reputation, they had a discussion about fairly complex theology.  More interesting to me is the fact that the people of the town came to hear what Jesus had to say because the woman told them that they should.  In fact, not only did they come to listen to Jesus because of her account of her conversation with Him, but many of them believed in Him from her testimony.  Let’s unpack this a little bit.  This woman came to get water in the middle of the day so as to avoid the town gossips, who got their water first thing in the morning along with everyone else.  Jesus had to know she was an outcast coming to get water at around noon. And she knew that He knew that.  Yet, He talked to her anyway. Jesus willingness to take her seriously on religious issues allowed Him to reach not just her, but her neighbors as well.

I use the daily Bible reading schedule from “The Bible.net” for my daily Bible reading.