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| SAMARITAN WOMAN� ENDNOTES OF SCHOLARLY SOURCES | ||||||||||||
| {Where Document name is cited first, it is Quoted} | ||||||||||||
| [1]� ���� Sychar was a city in the province of Samaria in which few Jews lived due to their heathenism.� Archaeologically, the mount Telul Balata is one-fourth mile from Jacob's well, and in it have been found artifacts from the time of Herod the Great and the rest of the first century. | ||||||||||||
| [2]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 4:3-4 - So Jesus left the Judean countryside and went back to Galilee.� To get there, he had to pass through Samaria. | ||||||||||||
| [3]������ All statements attributed to Jesus which are not in the Bible are based on inference, are merely speculation by the author, and are used sparingly.� Such statements always show up in italics. | ||||||||||||
| [4]������ THE BIBLE, II KINGS 17:24, 33 - The king of Assyria brought people from Babylon...and settled them in the towns of Samaria to replace the Israelites.� They took over Samaria and lived in its towns....They worshipped the Lord, but they also served their own gods in accordance with the customs of the nations from which they had been brought. | ||||||||||||
| [5]������ THE BIBLE, GENESIS 33:19; JOSHUA 24:32 - For a hundred pieces of silver, he [Jacob] bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, the plot of ground where he pitched his tent....And Joseph's bones...were buried at Shechem in the tract of land that Jacob [his father] bought for a hundred pieces of silver....This became the inheritance of Joseph's descendants. | ||||||||||||
| [6]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 4:5, 6, 8 - He came into Sychar, a Samaritan village that bordered the field Jacob had given his son Joseph....His disciples had gone to the village to buy food for lunch. | ||||||||||||
| [7]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 4:6 - Jesus, worn out by the trip, sat down at the well.� It was noon. | ||||||||||||
| [8]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 4:7 - A woman, a Samaritan, came to draw water.� Jesus said, "Would you give me a drink of water?" | ||||||||||||
| [9]������ THE BIBLE, JOHN 4:9 - The Samaritan woman, taken aback, asked, "How come you, a Jew, are asking me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?"� (Jews in those days wouldn't be caught dead talking to Samaritans.) | ||||||||||||
| [10]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 4:10 - Jesus answered, "If you knew the generosity of God and who I am, you would be asking me for a drink, and I would give you fresh, living water." | ||||||||||||
| [11]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 4:11 - The woman said, "Sir, you don't even have a bucket to draw with, and this well is deep.� So how are you going to get this 'living water'?" | ||||||||||||
| [12]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 4:12 - "Are you a better man than our ancestor Jacob, who dug this well and drank from it, he and his sons and livestock, and passed it down to us?" | ||||||||||||
| [13]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 4:13, 14a - Jesus said, "Everyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again and again.� Anyone who drinks the water I give will never thirst ~ not ever." | ||||||||||||
| [14]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 4:14b - "The water I give will be an artesian spring within, gushing fountains of endless life." | ||||||||||||
| [15]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 4:15 - The woman said, "Sir, give me this water so I won't ever get thirsty, won't ever have to come back to this well again!" | ||||||||||||
| [16]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 4:16-17a - He said, "Go call your husband and then come back."� "I have no husband," she said. | ||||||||||||
| [17]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 4:18 - That's nicely put: 'I have no husband.'� You've had five husbands, and the man you're living with now isn't even your husband.� You spoke the truth there, sure enough." | ||||||||||||
| [18]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 4:19-20; I KINGS 12:28 - "Oh, so you're a prophet!� Well, tell me this:� Our ancestors worshiped God at this mountain, but you Jews insist that Jerusalem is the only place for worship, right?"....The king made two golden calves.� He said to the people, 'It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem.� Here are your gods'...." | ||||||||||||
| [19]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 4:22 - "Believe me, woman, the time is coming when you Samaritans will worship the Father neither here at this mountain nor there in Jerusalem." | ||||||||||||
| [20]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 4:22-23 - "You worship guessed in the dark; we Jews worship in the clear light of day.� God's way of salvation is made available through the Jews.� But the time is coming ~ it has, in fact, come - when what you're called will not matter and where you go to worship will jot matter." | ||||||||||||
| [21]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 4:24 - "Your worship must engage your spirit in the pursuit of truth.� That's the kind of people the Father is out looking for: those who are simply and honestly themselves before him in their worship.� God is sheer being itself ~ Spirit.� Those who worship him must do it out of their very being, their spirits, their true selves, in adoration." | ||||||||||||
| [22]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 4:25 - The woman said, "I don't know about that.� I do know that the Messiah is coming.� When he arrives, we'll get the whole story." | ||||||||||||
| [23]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 4:26 - "I am he," said Jesus.� "You don't have to wait any longer or look any further." | ||||||||||||
| [24]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 4:27 - Just then his disciples came back.� They were shocked.� They couldn't believe he was talking with that kind of a woman.� No one said what they were all thinking, but their faces showed it. | ||||||||||||
| [25]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 4:28 - The woman took the hint and left.� In her confusion she left her water pot.� Back in the village she told the people.... | ||||||||||||
| [26]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 4:29-30 - "Come see a man who knew all about the things I did, who knows me inside and out.� Do you think this could be the Messiah!"� And they went out to see for themselves. | ||||||||||||
| [27]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 4:31-34 - In the meantime, the disciples pressed him, "Rabbi, eat.� Aren't you going to eat?"� He told them, "I have food to eat you know nothing about."� The disciples were puzzled.� "Who could have brought him food?"� Jesus said, "The food that keeps me going is that I do the will of the One who sent me, finishing the work he started." | ||||||||||||
| [28]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 4:35 - "As you look around right now, wouldn't you say that in about four months it will be time to harvest?� Well, I'm telling you to open your eyes and take a good look at what's right in front of you.� These Samaritan fields are ripe.� It's harvest time!" | ||||||||||||
| [29]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 4:36 - "The Harvester isn't waiting.� He's taking his pay, gathering in this grain that's ripe for eternal life.� Now the Sower is arm in arm with the Harvester, triumphant." | ||||||||||||
| [30]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 4:39 - Many of the Samaritans from that village committed themselves to him because of the woman's witness:� "He knew all about the things I did.� He knows me inside and out!" | ||||||||||||
| [31]����� THE BIBLE, JOHN 4:42 - They asked him to stay on, so Jesus stayed two days.� A lot more people entrusted their lives to him when they heard what he had to say.� They said to the woman, "We're no longer taking this on your say-so.� We've heard it for ourselves and know it for sure.� He's the Savior of the world!" | ||||||||||||