Here is my outline for the 2/7/2026 podcast:
The attitudes of the Woman at the Well.
- First exchange: Jesus says: Give me to drink.
- Point: Initiate the conversation with a context-appropriate question. Very few people will outright ignore such a question.
- Woman: How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? For the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.
- Attitude: Haughty, angry, hateful, mean.
- Second Exchange: Jesus says: If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.
- Point: Sidestepping her hatefulness, and offering something to address her real thrist, the basis of why she is there at noon in the first place.
- Woman: Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water? Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
- Attitude: Disbelief, pride (our father Jacob), ‘you think you can do better?’
- Third exchange: Jesus says: Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.
- Point: Ignoring the prideful jab, the Lord further presses his point, addressing the real thirst in this woman’s life.
- Woman: Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw.
- Attitude: Possibly mocking, possibly genuine interest in not ever having to come back to the well in embarrassment.
- Fourth exchange: Jesus says: Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
- Point: The beginning of conviction for her sin.
- Woman: I have no husband.
- Attitude: Perhaps embarrassment, perhaps just despondence. Why did she have no husband? Jesus has pierced the veil to the core issue, her sin. This incomplete answer shows the flesh’s willingness to cover up rather than expose sin.
- Fifth exchange: Jesus says: Thou hast well said, I have no husband: For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly.
- Point: Conviction driven home. As she would later say, ‘Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?’
- Woman: Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship.
- Attitude: Ok, I have sin, but you Jews are worshiping in the wrong place according to my raising. Trying to deflect the power of conviction with details of where.
- Sixth exchange: Jesus says: Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
- Point: The details of where are irrelevant; it’s the how you worship not the where.
- Woman: I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things.
- Attitude: Resignation to the knowledge of her sin.
- Seventh exchange: Jesus says: I that speak unto thee am he.
- Point: If you truly want salvation, I am he that can save. Here’s where the disciples re-enter the picture.
- The woman leaves her waterpot, saying nothing to Jesus, but going into the city, saying to the men of the city “Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?”
- Attitude: Saved, and she knows it, and is ready to tell it.