Wells are important in Israel s history Marked boundaries and landmarks. Good place to meet a wife. Secure water supply meant prosperity. David s capture of Jerusalem. Water wells symbolize God s mercy.
Water can also bring danger and death -Flood, Red Sea Happens to people who are unrepentant.
Vicarage house-bad cistern, full of dirt, foul water, like the things that people trust in for salvation. Water from God s well brings salvation. Jesus and the woman at the well. If you knew the gift of God and who it is who asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water. How true God supplies us.