Gospel of John 09.vp

Ses s i on 3: Our Sav i or , Our Judge , and Our Bread 55

3. The woman’s skepticism: Are you greater than our father Jacob , 4.12.

a. He gave us this well and drank from it himself, he and his sons and his cattle.

b. Association with personage and place : holy people and holy places as religious credibility (the mindset of religious consciousness )

4. Water that ends thirst forever, a spring of water welling up to eternal life, 4.13-15

5. Down to brass tacks: “Give me this water.” “Go and get your husband.”

a. The woman’s reply: I have no husband, 4.17.

b. Jesus’ response: You are correct; you have no husband, but you’ve had five and the one you have now isn’t yours either! , 4.17-18.

6. Neither is this an effort to make Jesus palatable to the philosophers and religious inquirers of the day.

D. True worship: worshiping God not in personage and place , but in spirit and truth , 4.20-24

1. Samaritan woman: the Samaritan Mount Gerizim versus the Jewish Jerusalem

2. Jesus: not Gerizim nor Jerusalem but spirit and truth, 4.24