Woman at the Well

Title ideas:People despised a (certain) woman, but she believed Jesus was the Messiah [the one appointed by God to save us] and brought many people to Jesus. Jesus loves sinful [bad] people!Is Jesus the Messiah?

One day, Jesus and his disciples were returning to his home town. (They had attended a festival in Jerusalem city.)(You should know that Jesus and disciples belonged to a big people group called Jews.)

They were traveling on a road near the towns where a people called Samaritan lived.The people called Jews despised [disrespected] the Samaritans, calling them half-breeds [mixed race].

At the time when the sun was high overhead, Jesus and his disciples arrived near a Samaritan town.

Near the town there was a deep water well. While Jesus’ disciples went into the town to buy some food, he stayed alone at the well in order to rest.

Then a woman came from the town to draw [take] water from the well.

Jesus said to her, "Please give me a drink of water."

The woman was surprised, because Jews generally despised Samaritan people. So she asked, "Why are you, a man and a Jew, asking me, a woman and a Samaritan, for a drink of water?"

Jesus replied, "If you knew who I am, you would have asked me for water, and I would have given you living water.”

The woman asked, "This is a deep well and you have nothing with which to draw water. So how would you draw water that you might give some to me?"

Jesus answered, "Everyone who drinks the water from this well will later become thirsty again. But whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again."

So she said, "Please give me that water so I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming back to this well."

Jesus replied, “I will. But, first, go to your husband and bring [lead] him here to me.”

She replied, "I have no husband."

Jesus said, "What you have said is true. I know you do not have a husband—for you have had five husbands, [one by one]. And the man you are staying with now is not your husband."

The woman said, "I believe that you are a prophet [a messenger from God]. We Samaritans say we must worship God on our [nearby] mountain, but you Jews say that everyone must worship in Jerusalem [city] [at the temple]. Where do you think God wants everyone to worship him?"

Jesus replied, "All people everywhere may worship God in any location, calling him Father. He wants us to worship him truthfully with our spirit [inside part].

Then the woman said, “We are waiting for the Messiah. He will tell us all true messages from God.”

Jesus replied, “I am the Messiah [the one whom God has appointed]. I have come.”

Then the woman left her water jar and hurriedly ran into the town.

In the town, the woman said to everyone, “Come see a man who told me everything I ever did. Might he be [I think he must be] the Messiah, whom we have been waiting for?”

Then many of those people went to the water well where Jesus was. Jesus stayed with them [in their town] for two days, teaching them God’s words. Thus, many more of them also believed [put their trust] in him.

They said, "Now we ourselves have heard him speak. Now we know that this man really is the Messiah who will save [rescue] all of us."