# Woman at the Well - The Gospels

An episode of [Kids Bible in a Year with Julia Jeffress Sadler](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1696638708), 9 Feb 2024, 13 min.

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Join Julia Jeffress Sadler as she takes us on an incredible adventure in Episode 150. Jesus, while resting at a well, has a surprising conversation with a Samaritan woman. He offers her "living water" leading to eternal life, revealing details of her life that astonish her. Jesus then reveals He is the Messiah, and the woman, filled with excitement, leaves to tell her village about Him. The disciples, puzzled by Jesus' actions, learn from Him about spiritual nourishment and doing God's will. The Samaritan village welcomes Jesus, and many believe in Him as their Lord and Savior after His two-day stay. Sign up to receive Kids Bible in a Year devotionals in your inbox every weekday: https://www.kidsbibleinayear.com/ Get ready to experience the Bible designed specifically for children with the official KidsBibleinaYear.com podcast, led by Julia Jeffress Sadler. This captivating audio series presents the age-old wisdom of the Bible in an engaging format that will captivate your kids. Each episode Julia translates biblical teachings into real-life applications, making Bible comprehension a breeze for young minds. And if you want more Christian resources and content, you can download the Pray.com app. Pray.com is the digital destination for faith, offering over 5,000 daily prayers, meditations, bedtime Bible stories, and cinematic stories inspired by the Bible. For more resources on how to live a successful Christian life, visit Julia Jeffress Sadler's website at https://ptv.org/julia/. This episode is sponsored by Little Passports. Visit LittlePassports.com/blessed and use promo code BLESSED to receive 20% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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[0:00] Speaker 1: Jesus answered her,' Everyone who drinks of this water will
[0:04] Speaker 1: thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I
[0:08] Speaker 1: will give him will never thirst again. But the water
[0:12] Speaker 1: that I will give him will become in him a
[0:15] Speaker 1: well of water springing up to eternal life.' John 4,
[0:20] Speaker 1: 13 through 14.' Dear God, you are the true giver
[0:26] Speaker 1: of life. Your kingdom is good and will last forever.'
[0:30] Speaker 1: Thank you that we are invited to your kingdom no
[0:33] Speaker 1: matter what mistakes we've made. You love us and will
[0:38] Speaker 1: never forget us no matter what. Please help us to
[0:42] Speaker 1: learn more about the new life you want us to
[0:44] Speaker 1: have and the living water you offer us in our
[0:47] Speaker 1: story today. Thank you. We love you. In Jesus' name, amen.
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[1:28] Speaker 3: Woman at the Well In our last story, Jesus had
[1:33] Speaker 3: a conversation with Nicodemus about what it means to be
[1:35] Speaker 3: born again and how God loved the world so much
[1:39] Speaker 3: He sent His only Son that whoever believes in Him
[1:43] Speaker 3: will have eternal life. In this story, Jesus will talk
[1:48] Speaker 3: to a Samaritan woman in the middle of the day
[1:50] Speaker 3: and talk about a living water which will never make
[1:54] Speaker 3: you thirsty again. as inspired by the Gospels.
[2:01] Speaker 1: Hi there, it's Julianne Thompson, guest hosting for Julia Jeffress
[2:05] Speaker 1: Sadler with the Kids Bible in a Year podcast. I
[2:08] Speaker 1: am so happy you're here today. Today we get to
[2:11] Speaker 1: hear an amazing story of how Jesus met a woman
[2:14] Speaker 1: who felt rejected by everyone, and he gave her a
[2:18] Speaker 1: very special message to show her that God loved her
[2:22] Speaker 1: and had not rejected her. What's going to happen? Let's
[2:26] Speaker 1: jump in and find out.
[2:29] Speaker 3: Jesus and his disciples were traveling through Samaria on his
[2:33] Speaker 3: way from Jerusalem to Galilee. Jews had a bad history
[2:37] Speaker 3: with Samaritans and often it was not appropriate for the
[2:41] Speaker 3: two groups to talk. Around noon, they arrived at a
[2:44] Speaker 3: Samaritan village. It was hot out and Jesus was hungry.
[2:49] Speaker 3: He asked his disciples to go into town for food
[2:52] Speaker 3: while he rested by the well. His disciples went out
[2:55] Speaker 3: to the town and left Jesus alone at the well.
[2:59] Speaker 3: Not long after the disciples left, a Samaritan woman came
[3:02] Speaker 3: to the well to draw water. She was hesitant at first.
[3:06] Speaker 3: She was not expecting anyone, especially not a Jew. But
[3:10] Speaker 3: she was thirsty and began drawing water from the well.
[3:14] Speaker 3: As she was drawing water, Jesus asked for a drink
[3:18] Speaker 3: from the well. She was even more surprised. This Jew
[3:21] Speaker 3: was actually talking to her. She shyly said, Jesus responded,
[3:26] Speaker 3: knowing what was going through her mind. If you had
[3:28] Speaker 3: any idea who it was you were talking to, you
[3:30] Speaker 3: would be asking me for water. Not just regular water,
[3:33] Speaker 3: but living water. Confused, the woman asked, What do you
[3:52] Speaker 3: mean living water? There is no such thing.
[3:56] Speaker 4: Is there?
[3:57] Speaker 3: How would you even get it? This well is deep
[4:00] Speaker 3: and you have no bucket to draw from it. Jesus
[4:04] Speaker 3: told her, Those who drink from this well, as you
[4:08] Speaker 3: often have found yourself thirsty, shall be again. Yet the
[4:12] Speaker 3: water I have to give springs up eternal life and
[4:16] Speaker 3: you would never be thirsty again.
[4:19] Speaker 2: Where do you.
[4:19] Speaker 3: Find this water?
[4:21] Speaker 2: Please give it to me.
[4:23] Speaker 3: Then I will never need to return to this well,
[4:26] Speaker 3: the woman exclaimed. Jesus told her to bring her husband back,
[4:30] Speaker 3: and he will tell her. She looks away in discomfort.
[4:34] Speaker 3: I do not have a husband. Jesus already knew that
[4:38] Speaker 3: and said, The man you are with is not your husband,
[4:43] Speaker 3: and you have had five husbands already. The woman was
[4:46] Speaker 3: confused as to how Jesus knew this. She assumed he
[4:50] Speaker 3: was a prophet or something of that nature to know that.
[4:53] Speaker 3: So she said uncomfortably, I can see you are a prophet.
[4:59] Speaker 3: Can you tell me the answer to the question we have?
[5:02] Speaker 3: Where is it that we should worship? Jews say at
[5:06] Speaker 3: the temple and we say here at the mountain. Who
[5:09] Speaker 3: is right in this situation? Jesus replied, Listen carefully, woman.
[5:15] Speaker 3: The time is upon us. Neither place is proper. But
[5:19] Speaker 3: neither place is not proper. God wants people to worship
[5:23] Speaker 3: him in spirit and truth. She jumped up in excitement.
[5:28] Speaker 3: I knew the Messiah was coming. He would come and
[5:31] Speaker 3: explain everything. Jesus smiled and told her, I am the
[5:36] Speaker 3: Messiah that you have been waiting for. She rushed off
[5:40] Speaker 3: in excitement, leaving her water jugs. She hurried past the
[5:44] Speaker 3: disciples who were just now returning with food. They were
[5:47] Speaker 3: confused as to what happened. They began to ask about
[5:51] Speaker 3: what happened. They were amazed that Jesus was talking to
[5:55] Speaker 3: the Samaritan woman, but everyone was too nervous to ask
[5:58] Speaker 3: about it. The woman was back in town telling everyone
[6:02] Speaker 3: to come and see the man that she met. He
[6:05] Speaker 3: knew every detail of her life without ever speaking before.
[6:10] Speaker 3: Surely he was the coming Christ. She invited them all
[6:14] Speaker 3: to come to the well. The disciples back with Jesus
[6:18] Speaker 3: were trying to convince him to eat, but he was
[6:20] Speaker 3: not hungry. He told them, I have food that you
[6:25] Speaker 3: do not know about. They were all confused, asking about
[6:29] Speaker 3: who brought Jesus food first, as they had always been
[6:32] Speaker 3: with each other. As they muttered amongst themselves, Jesus spoke
[6:36] Speaker 3: over them.
[6:37] Speaker 2: My food is to do the will of God.
[6:40] Speaker 3: They said to Jesus, You think we still have four
[6:44] Speaker 3: months until harvest? He then pointed to the crowd coming over.
[6:49] Speaker 3: Look here, the harvest is now. The crowd heard Jesus
[6:54] Speaker 3: and loved his message. They invited him to stay and
[6:57] Speaker 3: he remained there for two days. Many came to believe
[7:02] Speaker 3: Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
[7:09] Speaker 1: Living water? Food no one else knows about? Sometimes it
[7:14] Speaker 1: seems like Jesus talks in puzzles, doesn't it? But this
[7:18] Speaker 1: conversation was a very, very special one. Let's look at
[7:22] Speaker 1: it again to see why. Jesus and his disciples were
[7:26] Speaker 1: traveling from Jerusalem in the south of the bottom of
[7:30] Speaker 1: Israel up to Galilee in the north or the top
[7:33] Speaker 1: of Israel. To get there, they'd have to walk through
[7:36] Speaker 1: the middle part of Israel called Samaria. Now, Jews usually
[7:41] Speaker 1: avoided Samaria and everything about it. They didn't walk through it.
[7:46] Speaker 1: They didn't talk to the people. They didn't even want
[7:49] Speaker 1: anything to do with those old Samaritans. Now, why do
[7:54] Speaker 1: you think that was? Well, let's look back to what
[7:58] Speaker 1: we know about Samaria from other Bible stories. When Jeroboam
[8:02] Speaker 1: and Rehoboam split the nation of Israel into two kingdoms,
[8:07] Speaker 1: the one in the south was called Judah. And the
[8:09] Speaker 1: one in the north was called Samaria. The southern kingdom
[8:13] Speaker 1: had a few good kings, like Hezekiah and Josiah. But
[8:17] Speaker 1: in the north, there were no good kings at all.
[8:21] Speaker 1: Every single king, like King Ahab, was wicked. And because
[8:25] Speaker 1: the people of Samaria were so wicked, they worshipped worthless
[8:30] Speaker 1: idols and false gods like Baal and Asherah instead of
[8:34] Speaker 1: the Lord. God allowed the Assyrians to take them over.
[8:39] Speaker 1: Kind of like how he allowed the Babylonians to take
[8:42] Speaker 1: Judah over. But while King Nebuchadnezzar took the Jews from
[8:46] Speaker 1: Judah away to Babylon, King Sargon moved people from other
[8:50] Speaker 1: parts of Assyria into Samaria. Any Israelites who were left
[8:55] Speaker 1: married them. And their children and children's children and children's
[9:01] Speaker 1: children's children all the way down to the time of
[9:04] Speaker 1: Jesus were a mixture of God's people. and people from
[9:08] Speaker 1: other nations. So for hundreds and hundreds of years, the
[9:13] Speaker 1: Jews from Judah have looked down on the Samaritans. Instead
[9:17] Speaker 1: of seeing people that God still loved, they only saw
[9:21] Speaker 1: people who had messed up. Samaritans had made mistakes, and
[9:25] Speaker 1: the Jews wouldn't let them forget it. That's why they
[9:29] Speaker 1: didn't walk through Samaria, or talk to Samaritans, or have
[9:33] Speaker 1: anything to do with that place. To Jews, the whole
[9:38] Speaker 1: land was nothing but a bad memory. And to Samaritans,
[9:42] Speaker 1: rejection was all they could remember. It was easy to
[9:46] Speaker 1: feel like God wanted to forget them too. But Jesus
[9:51] Speaker 1: hadn't forgotten, and he didn't avoid them. Jesus led his
[9:55] Speaker 1: Jewish disciples straight into Samaria. There he had stopped by
[9:59] Speaker 1: Jacob's well, near where Jacob had lived with his family
[10:02] Speaker 1: before going down to Egypt. It's where Joseph was buried
[10:06] Speaker 1: and where Joshua had declared his house would serve the Lord.
[10:11] Speaker 1: That well had quenched the thirst of people in that
[10:14] Speaker 1: land long before David's kingdom, Solomon's kingdom, or the two
[10:18] Speaker 1: kingdoms of Judah and Samaria that caused so much trouble.
[10:22] Speaker 1: Jesus knew that the old kingdoms and the old way
[10:25] Speaker 1: of doing things had stopped giving his people life. They
[10:29] Speaker 1: needed a new way, a new kingdom, new water to
[10:33] Speaker 1: give them life. And that's why he offered the Samaritan
[10:37] Speaker 1: woman who stopped by the well that day. You see,
[10:40] Speaker 1: this woman not only felt rejected by Jews, but also
[10:44] Speaker 1: by all the other Samaritans she knew. She had made mistakes,
[10:49] Speaker 1: and no one would let her forget it. She probably
[10:52] Speaker 1: felt unlovable, unforgivable, and unacceptable. Jesus knew all these things,
[11:00] Speaker 1: and did you see what God did? People everywhere had
[11:04] Speaker 1: been asking Jesus if he was the Messiah, and he
[11:08] Speaker 1: hadn't answered any of them. But on this day, he
[11:12] Speaker 1: freely admitted that he was God's coming king. He offered
[11:16] Speaker 1: new water that would bring new life, a sign of
[11:19] Speaker 1: his new kingdom that would help people live a new
[11:21] Speaker 1: way so they would never thirst for worthless idols or
[11:26] Speaker 1: empty relationships again. And who did Jesus tell? Not important
[11:31] Speaker 1: Jewish leaders, not even his own followers. He told a
[11:36] Speaker 1: woman who felt rejected by everyone in a nation that
[11:39] Speaker 1: felt rejected by God.
[11:41] Speaker 4: In this one special.
[11:43] Speaker 1: Conversation, Jesus reminded them both They were not forgotten. To God,
[11:48] Speaker 1: people and nations who made mistakes were still lovable, forgivable,
[11:53] Speaker 1: and acceptable. I am so happy you joined me today.
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