Jesus came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, where there was Jacob’s well. Being tired from His journey, Jesus sat down by the well. At that time, a Samaritan woman came to draw water. When Jesus asked her for a drink, she wondered why a Jew talked to her. (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
“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.”
“Sir, you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well?”
“Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”
“Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
The woman did not understand what Jesus meant by “living water,” and she was only concerned with natural water. However, as she kept talking with Jesus, she started to show interest in spiritual things and confessed her faith.
“I know that Messiah (called Christ) is coming. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”
“I who speak to you am he.”
Surprised to hear what Jesus said, the woman left her water jar and hurried back to the town.
“Come and see! Could this be the Christ?”
The people in the town made their way toward Jesus to listen to him. Many of the Samaritans from that town believed in Jesus and said to the woman:
“We no longer believe just because of what you said; now we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this man really is the Savior of the world.”
The Messiah, whom the Jews had been waiting for from generation to generation, appeared to them one day. Many Jews rejected the Messiah who came to save them, but the Samaritan woman recognized Him and told the good news to other people without hesitation. Because of her testimony, many people received Christ, which was a once-in-a-lifetime blessing for them.
Now human beings are waiting for Christ to come again—the Christ who will give them the water of life to quench their weary and thirsty souls in this dreary world. However, Christ has already come and is giving us the water of life (Rev 22:17).
If we have realized who He is, let us shout out loud the good news of Christ’s coming to the people of the world who are still just looking up at the sky, eagerly waiting for Christ, so that all nations of the world can receive the Messiah and the water of life flowing out from our Heavenly Jerusalem in this age.
“Come and see! Christ has come!”