The document summarizes the biblical story of Jesus meeting a Samaritan woman at a well. It describes how the woman was an outcast due to her gender, race, and marital status. Jesus engages her in a long conversation about living water and salvation. After their talk, the woman believes in Jesus and tells others in her town, leading many of them to also believe. The document analyzes what this story teaches about Jesus' love and acceptance of all people, regardless of status, and the importance of sharing one's testimony of faith.

1. Going thru the Sacred Scripture
(The Samaritan Woman)

2. Who was the woman in the Gospel?
• She is never named, yet her encounter with Jesus
is the longest between the Messiah and any
other individual in the Gospel of John.
Representing the lowest of the low a female in a
society where women are both demeaned and
disregarded, a race traditionally despised by Jews,
and living in shame as a social outcast she is not
only had a holy encounter with Christ but also
receives eternal salvation. And
her testimony convinces an entire town to
believe.

3. • The story of the woman at the well is one of the most
iconic encounters in the Bible. Told in the Gospel depicts
how Jesus, traveling through Samaria on the way to Galilee,
sat down at a well in the town of Sychar.
• There, around noon, while His disciples were in town
buying food, He encountered a Samaritan woman coming
to draw water from the well. He asked her for a drink, and
their talk took off from there — culminating in her salvation
and many more from her town, too.
• We also know, from understanding cultural and historical
traditions of that time, that women typically drew water in
groups in the morning, and it was often a social occasion.
The fact that she was drawing water alone, at midday,
probably indicates she was a social outcast.

4. What Happened During Jesus’ Talk with the
Woman at the Well?
• After Jesus asked for a drink, the woman at
the well asked how Jesus could ask this of her,
as she was a Samaritan and Jesus was clearly a
Jew. He replied, “If you knew the gift of God
and who it is that asks you for a drink, you
would have asked him and he would have
given you living water”

5. • Now inferring Jesus was a prophet, she then
began to speak on religious matters,
specifically noting that Jews believe the place
they must worship is Jerusalem

6. What can we learn from the Woman at the
Well?
• This story has significance for five key reasons.
• First, it shows Jesus’ love for the world. The
fact that the woman at the well was of such
low standing — gender, race, and marital
status — yet they talked so directly, almost as
equal conversational partners, shows Jesus’
heart for all people, not just some.

7. • Second, it reminds us that only Jesus can offer
salvation. Jesus offers living water eternal life.
This water is not like regular water but rather
comes from God Almighty and lasts forever.
• Third, it shows the importance of offering our
testimony. When the woman believed, she
immediately ran off to tell others. Her words
made an impact. As Scripture tells us, “Many of
the Samaritans from that town believed in him
because of the woman’s testimony”

8. • Fourth, it underscores how Jesus is the Messiah.
He says He’s the Messiah, and the woman and
the townspeople believe Him. As the Samaritans
told the woman at the end of the story, “We
know that this man really is the Savior of the
world”
• Fifth, it reveals yet again how Jesus was rejected
by His own people. That the woman was a
Samaritan yet believed is probably not an
extraneous fact but rather the point.

9. What lesson we learned from the
Samaritan Woman?
• The story of the woman at the well is a rich
example of love, truth, freedom, redemption,
and acceptance. And best of all, not only does
Jesus accept her, but He accepts us, too. He
wants us all in His holy kingdom if only we,
too, believe.