In the bible what is the story" the woman at the well" about?

Answer 1

The message of the gospel is relevant. The gospel speaks to us about issues of racial conflict, adultery and gender discrimination. Jesus identified himself and his mission in terms of hunger and thirst. Je-sus asked the Samaritan woman known as a harlot for water.
For the woman, it was both a disarming as well as a natural introduction to Jesus. He didn't stare at her with a look of self-righteous condemnation. He didn't wave signs like "Repent or Perish" or "Turn or Burn" in her face. He didn't hand her a religious tract or pamphlet. He simply asked her to help him.

Of course, the fact that he would speak to a strange woman in public, and the fact that he, a Jew, would drink from her gentile water container was a shock.
Jesus responded to the woman by raising the conversation to a higher planeThe Samaritan woman assumed she was in a position to provide him with his needs. After all, she had a container for water. After all, she had experience providing other men's needs.

Jesus' answer hinted that he could provide her need. But the woman did not respond to Jesus' elevation of their conversation to a spiritual level. She merely observed that Jesus had nothing with which to draw water. (It was customary for travelers to have a leather bucket that was collapsible into other baggage. It could be taken out and formed into a shape that would hold water.)
The Samaritan woman challenged the stranger who spoke of some mysterious living water. She wondered if this stranger thought himself to be greater, wiser and more significant than "our father Jacob" after whom the well was named.
The woman, in many respects representing all of us as broken, sinful human beings, struggled to understand the discussion about water and life, to contain Jesus in her material and physical worldBut Jesus is not someone we contain or capture. He comes to us, like he did the Samaritan woman, from outside time and space. He comes into our world with the offer of eternal life. Water that will satisfy our thirst for life. Jesus takes the fundamental human physical need of water and transfers it to our fundamental spiritual need. The Samaritan woman knew all about water. She came to the well every day. She, like all human beings, needed water to survive.

Jesus appealed to her deep longing for spiritual satisfaction.

"Jesus answered, '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'" (John 4:13-14).

Answer 2

The story of the woman at the well in John 4:1-26 reveals that just as our bodies thirst, so do our souls. The soul needs spiritual food and water. If you find you are a thirsty Christian that feels unfulfilled and empty, it could be you are failing to drink regularly from His Word.

Answer 3

The woman at the well was a Samaritan, Jesus was a Jew. They were racially divided. Jesus was there to show all races were equal in His eyes and all could be saved. Jesus was sent to shed His blood for all the world, not just the Jews of a select few.

Answer 4

The woman wants the living water to decrease her hardships. She doesn't want God or to progress spiritually. This is also symbolized by her forgetting her water pot when she leaves.

The talk is about how to truly worship God: in Spirit and in Truth.

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Answer 5

Those who worship will do so in spirit and in truth, not in a mountain or in a building, or in a corporate structure or in a brand name religion.

Answer 6

Her and Jack went to fetch a pail of water.
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