The Answer to Your Deepest Longing
Hi GAMErs,
Today’s passage is John 4:1-14. Let’s go!
John 4:1-3 (NIV)
1 The Pharisees heard that Jesus was gaining and baptizing more disciples than John,
2 although in fact it was not Jesus who baptized, but his disciples.
3 When the Lord learned of this, he left Judea and went back once more to Galilee.
On verses 1-3: Notice that Jesus was intentional and careful in his movements.
John 4:4-6 (NIV)
4 Now he had to go through Samaria.
5 So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
6 Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
On verses 4-6: On his way from Judea to Galilee, Jesus goes through Samaria. The people living in Samaria, called Samaritans, were a people of mixed Jewish and Gentile blood. The fact that Jesus was tired from the journey speaks to his humanity. Interestingly, it was Jesus’ humanity that led him to this divine encounter in the verses that follow.