John 4

The story of the Samaritan woman, or the woman at the well is a very familiar one.  She found the Living Water, never to thirst again.  Jesus "had" to go through Samaria because He had a divine appointment with her.

It was interesting that right after studying the passage in the previous chapter of Jesus's conversation with Nicodemus, we actually see some parallels with this conversation with the Samaritan woman.   Whether it was about being "born again" or the "living water", both did not fully understand the spiritual reference, thinking only about the physical "birth" or "water".   And both are examples of ways to evangelize.  There is a moment when confronted with her sin of having had five husbands and now living with someone who is not her husband, the woman tried to evade by turning to a controversial topic of where to worship.  But, even then, Jesus just pointed her to true worship of the Father in spirit and truth.

And then, He clearly tells her that He is the Messiah, using reference to "I AM".    While John clearly shows Jesus as GOD throughout his Gospel, but, in this passage, he also showed that Jesus was fully man "tired from the journey".  Jesus was fully God and fully Man.

31-Dec: The Samaritan woman effectively gives testimony to those in town, and they come out to see for themselves and believe that He is the "Savior of the World".  This is in contrast to Galilee where Jesus said "a prophet has no honor in his own country".
Jesus had used the analogy of birth and water for spiritual life, and now uses food as an analogy for doing the will and work of God.  In particular, the example given was sowing, reaping, and harvesting souls for eternal life.  In these analogies, we see that the essentials of our spiritual life are regeneration, worship, and doing the work of God.