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The Samaritan woman at Jacob’s well, by Annibale Carracci 1560 – 1609.

“When Jesus’ disciples returned from town, they were thunderstruck to find him conversing publically with a woman at Jacob’s well.” (Jn 4:27)

St. Photina at Jacob’s Well

3rd Sunday of Lent
Exodus 17:3-7 Romans 5:1-2, 5-8 John 4:4-39

Ex 17:3-7 - Water from the rock
In those days, in their thirst for water, the people grumbled against Moses, saying, “Why did you ever make us leave Egypt? Was it just to have us die here of thirst with our children and our livestock?” So Moses cried out to the Lord, “What shall I do with this people? A little more and they will stone me!” The Lord answered Moses, “Go over there in front of the people, along with some of the elders of Israel, holding in your hand, as you go, the staff with which you struck the river. I will be standing there in front of you on the rock in Horeb. Strike the rock, and the water will flow from it for the people to drink.” This Moses did, in the presence of the elders of Israel. The place was called Massah and Meribah, because the Israelites quarreled there and tested the Lord, saying, “Is the Lord in our midst or not?”

A reading from the holy Gospel according to John
Glory to you, Lord.

Jn 4:4-39 - Water from Jacob’s well
Jesus and his disciples had to pass through Samaria and they came to a town named Sychar, near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there. Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down at the well. It was high noon. A woman of Samaria came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, “Give me a drink of water.” (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to Him, “How can you, a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a cup of drink?” (A Jew would never use the same dish or cup that a Samaritan uses.)

Jesus answered, “If you only knew what a wonderful gift God has for you, and who I am, you would ask me for some living water!” The woman said to him, “Sir, you do not even have a bucket and the well is deep; where then can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this cistern and drank from it himself with his children and his flocks?” Jesus answered and said to her, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again; but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst; the water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may not be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.“

Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come back." The woman answered him, "I have no husband." Jesus said to her, "You are right in saying, 'I have no husband'; for you have had five husbands, and the one you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true!"

“I can see that you are a prophet,” the woman said.” Our ancestors worshiped on this mountain; but you people say that the place to worship is in Jerusalem.” Jesus said to her, “Believe me, woman, the hour is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You Samaritans do not really know whom you worship; we Jews know whom we worship, because salvation comes from the Jews. But the hour is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth. Those are the kind of people the Father wants to worship him. God is Spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

The woman said to him, “I know that the Messiah is coming, the one called the Christ; when he comes, he will tell us everything.” Jesus said to her, “I who speak with you am he.” When Jesus’ disciples returned from town, they were thunderstruck (ethumazon) to find him conversing publically with the woman at Jacob’s well. The woman then left her water jar behind and went back to town, and said to the people there, “Come and see someone who told me everything I have ever done! Could this not be the Messiah?” At that, they set out from the town to meet him. Many Samaritans from that town believed in him on the strength of the woman’s word of testimony that, “He told me everything I ever did!”

The Gospel of the Lord.
Praise to you, Lord Jesus Christ.
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Introduction
Water & shade at Jacob’s well
As Jesus and the disciples were leaving Judea and were going back to Galilee they decided to go through unfriendly Samaria instead of around it. They came to a town called Sychar. Jacob’s well was there. It was high noon, and all were tired and thirsty. In Carracci’s painting a huge tree is stretching its branches over Jacob’s well, and in its heavenly shade and amid cool breezes the weary Jesus is speaking with the Samaritan woman, as the disciples are returning from buying food in town.

A rambling conversation

When the Samaritan woman comes to draw water from the well, Jesus asks her for some to drink. (Jn 4:7) After some conv

Cincinnati, Ohio Engine Co. 48
1913 Republic/Ahrens-Fox
250 GPM
One of 10 purchased.
The 48's are on the ramp of their newly opened quarters at 7017 Vine Street in Carthage. Notice the equipment carried: Hamm Fire Department lanterns; a couple of ground ladders; nozzles; and spare tires. A large spotlight is also on board and a bell is mounted on the dash. These small Ahrens-Fox rigs were constructed on Republic automobile chassis that were manufactured in Hamilton, Ohio. This building was in use until 1939 when the new station was built on Seymour Avenue. After this station was closed the building was converted to a police station which was the location of District 4.