John 4:4-12

"Jesus had to go through Samaria. So he came to town in Samaria called Sychar, where he sat down by the well. When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give me a drink?"
The Samaritan woman said to him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?"
Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water."
"Sir, you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his flocks and herds?"

Think about this

1. After the division of the northern & southern kingdoms, there was intermarriage among the Jews with the Assyrians, therefore the "pure Jews" hated the mixed race called Samaritans because they had taken on traditions of the Assyrian race.

2. This woman was a Samaritan, a member of the hated mixed race, she was known to be living in sin and she was in a public place. No respectable Jewish man would talk to a woman under such circumstances. But Jesus did. The Good News is for EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE! As followers of Jesus we must do the same.

3. "Living Water" thirsting after God as one thirsts for water, the Fountain of Life. Jesus is offering that "living"water that would satisfy the soul's desire eternally.

3. What was Jesus talking about when he referred to "living water"?