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And this is where the story explained it this book occurred. The Samaritan Woman is generally portrayed in our Bible studies as a woman of ill-repute. While avoiding people because of her deep shame over her immoral life, she seemingly stumbled upon Jesus resting at a well. However, most people reading this story are left with a nagging question.
• Jesus' sensitivity with the Samaritan woman. • Samaritan woman’s feeling that when Jesus first spoke, he was trying to seduce her. • Disciples’ surprise when they saw Jesus talking with a woman. • Disciples’ confusion when Jesus told them he had food they didn’t know about. • Samaritan woman’s excitement when she told the ...
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Interpreters sometimes explore the story’s contributions to understandings of God and worship without much attention to the woman. 10 Others question the woman’s ability to understand what Jesus says. 11 However, the Samaritan woman is a real conversation partner in John 4:4-42. Her responses to Jesus drive the story forward.
- Caryn A. Reeder
The “woman at the well” or the story of the Samaritan Woman at the Well is a well known story where Jesus reveals Who He is to the woman, but there is a much deeper meaning than you might imagine to this encounter. The story can be read in John chapter 4 and finds Jesus speaking to a woman. Men of the first century rarely spoke to women at all.
Feb 15, 2022 · Books. The Samaritan Woman's Story: Reconsidering John 4 After #ChurchToo. Caryn A. Reeder. InterVarsity Press, Feb 15, 2022 - Religion - 224 pages. Reader's Choice Award Winner. Most Christians have heard a familiar description of the Samaritan woman in John 4: she was a sinner, an adulteress, even a prostitute.
Oct 25, 2019 · Tired from the journey, Jesus rests beside a well on the edge of the town of Sychar. As his disciples head into town to buy food, Jesus is left alone. It’s noon and likely hot, and a woman from Samaria arrives to draw water. Jesus asks the woman for water; she expresses surprise that a Jew would talk to a Samaritan.
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Nov 5, 2013 · John 4:27-30. The disciples attitude towards women reflected that of the culture, but Jesus never obeyed the traditions of men that violated God’s value system and they did not dare to question him. The woman was so excited about her encounter with him that she just left her waterpot and hurried back into the town.
