Women of Note in the New Testament
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Jew, asked a Samaritan woman for a drink of water, it was an action
unheard of. The ensuing dialog changed her life
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How thankful we should be that Christ took human nature upon
Himself, and became subject to temptation, even as we are! Though
He took humanity upon Himself, He was divine. All that is attributed
to the Father Himself is attributed to Christ. His divinity was clothed
with humanity; He was the Creator of heaven and earth; and yet while
upon earth, He became weary, as men do, and sought rest from the
continual pressure of labor. He who made the ocean, who controls
the waters of the great deep, who opened the springs and channels of
the earth, felt it necessary to rest at Jacob’s well, and to ask a drink of
water from a strange Samaritan woman.
When she questioned the propriety of His request—how it was that
He, being a Jew, should ask water of one who was a Samaritan—He
spoke words to her that revealed His divine character. He said: “If
thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me
to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given
thee living water.”
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When the woman expressed surprise at this statement, He contin-
ued, “Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never
thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water
springing up into everlasting life.”—
The Review and Herald, May 19,
1896
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The woman looked upon Him with wondering attention; He had
succeeded in arousing her interest and inspiring respect for Himself.
She now perceived that it was not the water of Jacob’s well to which
Jesus alluded, for of this she used continually, drinking, and thirsting
again. With remarkable faith she asked Him to give her the water of
which He spoke, that she might not thirst nor come to draw from the
well....
Jesus now abruptly changed the subject of conversation, and bade
her call her husband. The woman answered frankly that she had no
husband. Jesus had now approached the desired point where He could
convince her that He had the power to read her life history, although
previously unacquainted with her. He addressed her thus: “Thou hast
well said, I have no husband; for thou hast had five husbands; and he
whom thou now hast is not thy husband; in that saidst thou truly.”