Give ME a Drink

“Give Me a Drink”
John 4:7-9

A Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give me some water to drink.” (For his disciples had gone off into the city to buy provisions.)

So the Samaritan woman said to him, “How can you—a Jew—ask me, a Samaritan woman, for water to drink?” (For Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans.)

Three things about this woman seem to put her at a distinct disadvantage. First, she is a Samaritan. Second, she is guilty of sexual immorality, and third, she is a woman. We know the Pharisees would have had no association with such a woman.

We should not be surprised that our Lord would deal with this woman in a very different manner: The reason JESUS did not disdain her very presence as would the Pharisees is explained in the Book of Luke 7:40-50:

So Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.”

He replied, “Say it, Teacher.”

“A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed him five hundred silver coins, and the other fifty. When they could not pay, he canceled the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?”
Simon answered, “I suppose the one who had the bigger debt canceled.”

Jesus said to him, “You have judged rightly.”

Then, turning toward the woman, he said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I entered your house, you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You gave me no kiss, but from the time I entered she has not stopped kissing my feet.

You did not anoint my head with oil, but she has anointed my feet with perfumed oil. Therefore I tell you, her sins (which were many) are forgiven, thus she loved much; but he who is forgiven little, loves little.”

Then Jesus said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”

But those who were at the table with him began to say among themselves, “Who is this, who even forgives sins?”