Like the disciples before her, and unlike Nicodemus, the Samaritan woman moved from conversation with Jesus to conversion, to co-laboring with Jesus in his ministry. Jesus came to Samaria to transform this woman at the well into a disciple and an apostle.
HER STORY: Leaders in the Cause of Christ, The Woman at the Well
The story of the woman at the well comes right after Jesus made a blockbuster statement to the Pharisee and Sanhedrin member Nicodemus: God loves not just Pharisees, not even just Judeans, but the whole world. #WomanattheWell #SamaritanWoman
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HER STORY: Leaders in the Cause of Christ, The Samaritan Woman, A Disciple of Jesus
Take a close look at this woman, one who may not have been there for Christ's ascension (but, then again, she may have been, as Luke 8:3 indicates many women traveled with Jesus), who said yes to Jesus's call. #SamaritanWoman #WomanattheWell
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Women Disciples: Jesus’s Call to the Samaritan Woman
Matthew is the teaching Gospel, giving instruction on what it means to be a disciple of Jesus Markโs Gospel shows the whole arc of Jesusโs impact on those disciples. Luke gives many snapshots of the Jesus and the disciplesโ ministry. John focuses in on individual stories, giving a whole chapter, for instance this story, the … Continue reading Women Disciples: Jesus’s Call to the Samaritan Woman
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Gospel of John: From Faith to Faith
Relief may feel like satisfaction for a while. But true satisfaction, the deep and lasting kind, can only come through faith in Jesus, personally relating to Jesus and responding to him in faith, living it out because you believe.
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Gospel of John: A Nobleman’s Son
The noble official was covered in the dust of his travels, his robes powdered a dull grey, his feet nearly monochrome with dirt. Streaks of sweat lined his face, and the hair across his forehead was matted. Real tears streamed from his eyes and nose, flying in drops as he dropped to his knees, clasped his hands before Jesus, and wrung them.
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Gospel of John: Food
John made it clear it was the woman who testified about Jesus, and the whole town was her harvest, not the disciples.โ Oh yes, they would reap the harvest. But she was the sower Now Jesus would rejoice with this woman as her entire town came out to meet Him.
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Gospel of John: โฮคฮฏ ฮถฮทฯฮตแฟฯฮต;โ
The way John told this storyโand remember, the timing of things was important to Johnโit was at the very moment of the womanโs statement about the coming Messiah, and Jesusโ declaration of โYHWH/I AM the very one, speaking to you right nowโ that the disciples arrived.
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Gospel of John: I AM
The Samaritans called the Messiah โTahav,โ the Revealer. Someday the Messiah would come, and He would bring about this radical change in worship, but Jesus certainly could not mean that time had come now . . . could he?
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Gospel of John: Truth
Here was One who could truly behold her true self, who accepted her for who she truly was, who admired her character, and honored her dignity, who understood the courage it took for her to choose truth when it held the potential to hurt her, or to render her disqualified to receive the gift this man had to give.
