In the 66 books of the holy bible, it points to one person and he is Emanuel Yeshua the Nazarene, the Lamb of God Most Most the takes away the sins, abominations and falling states of living and none things of the world.Since we are living in the end of the age, God Most High gave his only begotten son to be the antidote for sin. and the "WATER" of life that can quench the thirst of the of humankind.Ho, everyone who is thirsty come to the waters and drink, and they that have no money come buy and drink! According to the Bible, the woman at well in sSameria is one example And the teachings of John 4;1. There are hundreds of millions of people of all nations who are thirsty for the water of life but don't know where to find it, or who is the giver of this soul quenching water. He is no other but Yeshua the Lamb of God Most High who takes away the thirst of humanity.Then, in about 400 B. C., the Samaritans built a rival temple on Mount Gerazim. The Jewish leader John Hyrcanus burned it down in 128 B.C., which didn’t improve relations between the two groups! Also, the Samaritans only accepted the Pentateuch (the first five books of Moses), not all of the Jewish Scriptures. So the Jews viewed the Samaritans as biological and religious half-breeds. All of these events and factors had led to intense hostility between the Samaritans and the Jews by Jesus’ day. We can’t properly understand this story unless we keep this hostile history in mind.
The normal time for women to get water was either early morning or later in the afternoon, when it was cooler. The well was a place where women gathered to talk as they filled their water pots. We can’t say for sure why this woman came to the well at noon, but it may be that because of her immoral life, she was not liked by the other women. She wanted to come when she would be alone. But she encounters this Jewish man, who has the audacity to ask her for a drink of water. It would be like a white man in the South years ago, where they had separate drinking fountains for whites and “coloreds,” asking a black woman if he could have a drink from her canteen! Add to this that it wasn’t socially acceptable for a Jewish man, much less a rabbi, to speak to any woman in public. The rabbis thought that even Jewish women should not be taught the Scriptures. So for Jesus to go beyond asking for a drink, which was shocking enough, and direct the conversation into spiritual things with this Samaritan woman was off the charts (4:27)!
It wasn’t that this woman said, “Sir, you look like a Jewish rabbi. I’m hungry to know your God. Can you tell me how to do that?” She was just going about her daily chores, minding her own business, when this stranger asked her for a drink and then steered the conversation into spiritual matters. She wasn’t seeking to know God. Her guilt over her current live-in boyfriend and her five marriages, which had probably ended because of her multiple adulteries, caused her to keep her distance from God. The only explanation for this story is that Jesus was seeking a sinner who wasn’t even seeking Him.
The application for those of us who know Christ is: If we want to be like our Savior, we should
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