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Jesus and the Woman With Five Husbands
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Jesus answered, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who
says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He
would have given you living water.”
“Had you asked of Me, I would have given you a drink of the
water of everlasting life.”
The Woman’s Interest Is Awakened
The woman’s light, bantering manner began to change. “Sir,
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You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then
do You get that living water? Are You greater than our father Jacob,
who gave us the well, and drank from it himself?” She saw before
her only a thirsty traveler. In her mind, she compared Him with
Jacob. She was looking backward to the fathers, and forward to the
Messiah’s coming, while the Messiah Himself was beside her, and
she did not know Him. How many thirsty souls today are close by
the Living Fountain, yet looking far away for the Water of Life!
Solemnly, earnestly, Jesus said, “Whoever drinks of this water
will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give
him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become
in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”
People everywhere are longing for something to fill the unsat-
isfied need of the soul. Only One can meet that lack—Christ, “the
Desire of all nations.” The divine grace that He gives is like living
water, purifying and invigorating the whole being.
Jesus did not convey the idea that merely one drink of the water
of life would be enough. All who taste the love of Christ will
continually long for more, but they seek for nothing else. The
riches, honors, and pleasures of the world do not attract them. The
constant cry of their hearts is, “More of You.” Our Redeemer is an
inexhaustible fountain. We may drink, and drink again, and we will
always find a fresh supply.
Jesus had stirred the woman’s interest and awakened a desire for
the gift He had mentioned. “Sir, give me this water, that I may not
thirst, nor come here to draw.”