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Ses s i on 3: Our Sav i or , Our Judge , and Our Bread 53

(1) Matt. 4.2 – And after fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.

(2) Matt. 8.24 – And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep. (3) Heb. 2.17 – Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. (4) Heb. 4.15 – For we do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but one who in every respect has been tempted as we are, yet without sin.

B. Jesus and the Samaritan woman, 4.6-9

1. “Give me a drink,” 4.4-9.

a. Disciples gone into the city to buy food, Jesus asks a woman of Samaria for water, 4.7-8

b. The shock of the Samaritan woman: “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria?”, 4.9.

c. Reason for the shock (for Jews have no dealings with Samaritans), 4.9

That this Samaritan woman comes to the well alone rather than in the company of other women probably indicates that the rest of the women of Sychar did not like her, in this case because of her sexual activities (cf. comment on 4.18). Although Jewish teachers warned against talking much with women in general, they would have especially avoided Samaritan women, who, they