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While He was waiting for their return.
A woman came to the well to get water.
Because of the time of day that she was
there, He knew she was an outcast.

Jesus stopped her and asked her, "Give
me to drink". She recognized Him as a
Jew, and asked Him "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."

Jesus said, "If thou knewest the gift of
God, and who it is that saith unto thee,
Give me to drink; thou wouldst have
asked of him, and he would have given
thee living water."

The woman was thinking of natural water
while He was speaking of the water of
everlasting life that quenched thirst forever.

The many gates of Jerusalem

It was customary to close the gates of
Jerusalem at night but during the days
of the Passover they did not because
many people had no place to stay.

Some Samaritans defiled the temple by
putting parts of dead bodies all around
in the area of the temple.

This angered the Jews. After that the
Samaritans were not allowed on the
temple grounds.

This caused the Jews and Samaritans
not to have any thing to do with each
other.

So most of the time the Jews took the
long way around as not to go through
Samaria when they traveled to Galilee.

"He left

Judaea, and

departed

again into

Galilee.

And he must

needs go

through

Samaria.

Then cometh

he to a city of

Samaria,

which is called Sychar, near to the parcel

of ground that Jacob gave to his son

Joseph. Now Jacob's well was there.

Jesus therefore, being wearied with his

journey, sat thus on the well: and it was

about the sixth hour.

There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw

water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to

drink. (For his disciples were gone away

unto the city to buy meat.)

Then saith the woman of Samaria unto

him, 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." John 4:3-9

At this time, most Jews were not taking

the way through Samaria because of the

bad relationship the Jews and with the

Samaritans.

They were of mixed blood, part Isrealite

and part heathen.

Their religion was a mixture of Judaism

and heathenism.

Jesus left

Jerusalem,

it was not the
place to make

His home.

We are told that the 12 disciples had
begun to make other disciples and to
baptize.

But as soon a John was put in prison

they had stopped until Jesus gave

them the 'Great Commission after

His resurrection.

The baptism that He would authorize
would be different than John's. Many
of John's followers turned to the disciples.

The ministry of Jesus' began with the
end of John the Baptist's.

The priests may have sent Nicodemus
to find out more from Jesus because
they were not satisfied with the answer
He gave them.

Whether He went for them or on his
own, we know he went secretly not
wanting anyone to know of his visit.

Nicodemus saw Jesus as a prophet and
said that He must be of God. But had
not accepted Him as Messiah.

John 3;2 in verses 3 & 4 Jesus tried
to explain to him of the kingdom of
God.

Nicodemus was puzzled by this and
said very little. Jesus continued on
explaining spiritual things. He left
Jesus bewildered, each time he is
seen in public he defended Jesus.

The Jews

took it as

the literal

temple

not Jesus'

body from

the answer He gave them in John 2:18-22.

Even the disciples did not really

understand the meaning at the time.

Only after His resurrection did this

become plain to them.

The Temple held the Shekinah Glory

but now the Spirit of God dwelt in

this temple made without hands.

This truth was involved in building

the Church, the Body of Christ.

The Temple

was a sacred

place to

Jesus.

It held His Father's presence.

It hurt Him to see it desecrated.

It had been turned in to place of

business by the priests who took

advantage of the worshippers that

came for the passover.

It was to be a house of prayer for all

nations but had been turned into a busy

bazaar, showing no reverence.

John 2:15-17 Jesus began throwing

them out, chasing animals and men.

John 2:18-22 tells of His answer when

they wanted to know by what authority

He was doing these things.

The fruit of the vine was a type of the
blood Jesus was going to shed for us on
the cross.

Although "His hour had not come", He
did give this miracle as a kind of His
redemption.

Being at the wedding shows us that we
can be joyful. But it must be done in
context with God's holiness and right-
eousness.

This miracle showed the nature of
Jesus' ministry which would be a
work of transformation, blessings,
and of the supernatural.

Jesus was not against joy. pleasure
and laughter. He wanted to share in
them and their problems and sorrows
to give them victory over sin.

It is proven

that the

Word tells of
more than one kind of wine.....the

fermented and the unfermented.

One is a great wholesome beverage
and the other is a poison that degrades
and makes alcoholics out of people.

Jesus certainly made a fresh, pure,
and unfermented wine at the wedding
of Cana.

The Old Testament disapproves of the
use of fermented wine. Proverbs 23:31
Lev 10:9 and others.

He did not perform the same works as
breweries.

His reason for being at the wedding was
to give His approval of marriage not to
turn water into wine.

Many have perverted this first miracle
He performed and lost the fact that it
was His sanctity of marriage that was
the real reason for His being there.

At the

moment

Satan left,

the angels

come to

minister to Jesus.

They came to minister, and strengthen

Him (they did not need to deliver Him).

Jesus' words and actions delivered himself

from the situation. He fought that battle and

won.

Jesus has now given the same power and

authority to the believers' that we can win

against the devil by doing the same as He

did.

But Satan tries to lie to us the same way

by putting doubt in our minds 'if we really

are believers and if God really has said....."

just as he did Jesus.

We can fight the battles and win also!

Jesus consistantly used the word of
God to defeat Satan. The Word of
God's power has a force much greater
than mere words could say.

Satan always uses material things to
get a hold on man, because man clings
to worldly goods and is centered on
temporal things rather than spiritual.

Jesus came to turn that order around
and have man center on treasures in
heaven rather than treasures on earth.

The Lord left palaces in heaven to come
to earth. He gave up 'riches that through
His poverty we may become rich'.