Author	Thread: The Woman at the Well
Admin	The Woman at the Well Posted : 11 Dec, 2020 12:54 PM By Amber Picolta https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3697514186982656&id=151146994952744 This whole story is interpreted wrongly when we assume she is some adulterous woman who jumped from man to man. When Jesus said she had had 5 husbands, it’s important to understand what he’s saying here. He’s not saying, I see you’ve jumped from husband to husband. In this culture, women could not initiate divorce. That means 5 different husbands abandoned her. He was saying to her that he sees her pain, he knows the betrayal and abandonment she had been through. The point being made here is still valid and good, but when we take into consideration the historical context, it just gets a little sweeter. Jesus was letting her know that he truly sees her through and through in an intimate way that no one else can. Society blames her and calls her promiscuous. Jesus sees the rejection and abandonment she’d experienced. Today if you’re reading this and society or religion has deemed you unclean, rejected you, blamed you for the sins of another..... The God who created you sees you and knows your pain. When others would judge you or twist to blame you, God sees your heart and is never ashamed to be seen with you. Post Reply
Moonlight7 View Profile History	The Woman at the Well Posted : 11 Dec, 2020 01:01 PM The true story us found in John 4 the chapter. I love this story! Jesus is a compassionate and forgiving. He also tells the woman to go and sin no More. I prefer reading stories in the Bible myself. Post Reply
View Profile History	The Woman at the Well Posted : 11 Dec, 2020 01:11 PM absolutely Jesus as God could see right through the double standard cultural stereotype and knew that the woman would take too heart the words " go and sin no more " Romans 5:20 where sin abounds Grace abounds much more of course the Pharisees we're trying to use the opportunity to stone him ...... but like it says in second chronicles " heaven and Earth cannot contain thee......." neither could they 😉 Post Reply
View Profile History	The Woman at the Well Posted : 11 Dec, 2020 02:25 PM The woman that he told to go and sin no more was not the woman at the well. That was a different woman. Post Reply
View Profile History	The Woman at the Well Posted : 11 Dec, 2020 02:35 PM You're right I stand corrected I got my stories mixed up Post Reply
Moonlight7 View Profile History	The Woman at the Well Posted : 11 Dec, 2020 03:29 PM Oh it was the woman caught in adultery that Jesus told, hi and sin no more. Post Reply
Moonlight7 View Profile History	The Woman at the Well Posted : 11 Dec, 2020 03:30 PM " go" Post Reply
Moonlight7 View Profile History	The Woman at the Well Posted : 11 Dec, 2020 03:46 PM John 8:1-11 Post Reply
ADAM7777 View Profile History	The Woman at the Well Posted : 12 Dec, 2020 04:23 AM Yes Jesus is compassionate and forgiving. Jesus came to show the way, but people reject the way of light as their way is darkness.. John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. If the Spirit teaches us the deep things of God, how is it going to be mixed up, or not have understanding ? The woman at the well first shows how she is in need of the Messiah, as she is in doubt and without the correct way ever shown to her. Jesus reveals how all practices she and others do, leads to death. We need the water that springs up in us to eternal life. Jesus also has the woman confess of her wrong practises, otherwise if we did not acknowledge the wrong we did, how can we now believe in the right. John 4:12 Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? 13 Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: 14 But 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. 15 The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. 16 Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. 17 The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: 18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. Zechariah 14:8 And it shall be in that day, that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. Revelation 7:17 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. Revelation 22:1 And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. Post Reply