Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1891-07-31
CHRIST AT THE WELL
LESSON V, THIRD QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, AUG. 2.

NIT verses, 10, 14-GOlden Text, Nev.
xii, documentary by the Rev. ID.
NJ. Stearns.
Compiled from Lesson Helper Quarterly by
permission of II. S. Hoffman, publisher, Phil
adelphia.l
5. "Then cometh He to a city of Samaria,
which is called Sychar, near to the parcel
of ground that Jacob gave to his son Jo-
seph."
After the passover Jesus and His disci-
pies tarried in JudBa, and many came to
Him and were by His disciples baptized
(chapter iii, %; iv, l, p. John hearing this
rejoiced greatly and was in no way jeal.
Gus, for his joy was to have people follow
Jesus iii, 30, 30). Jesus, leaving Judaa
for Galilee, and passing through Samaria,
stops at Sychar. Here was Abrams first
resting place and altar in the promised
land, and here the Lord appeared to him
Gen xii, 6, y. Here also the bones of 10.
seph were buried Josh. xiv, 32). 1t is
about thirty-four miles north of Jerusa-
lem.
6. "Now Jacobs well was there. Jesus
therefore, being wearied with His journey,
sat thus ON the well. 1t was about the
sixth hour"
See the true humanity of Jesus. He was
!
His body, although sinless, needed food
and drink and rest, just as ours do He
was touched with the feeling of our in
frmities and can have compassion on Us
Heb. iv, 15 ", When you are weary
just tell Him, for He has not forgotten how
it feels, and He feels for you.
Z There cometh woman of Samari
to draw water; Jesus saith unto her, Give
| me to drink"
Jesus knowing all people and all PEG
pies hearts, knew just how to approach
each of them. He asks this woman to d.
Him "A favor by giving Him a drink OF
water, while in His heart He thought Of
the living water which she needed.
s. For His disciples were gone away
unto the city to buy meat"
Although he had fed millions of peopl5
for forty years with bread from Heaven
and could have commanded birds or al
angel to bring food, as in the case of Elijah
yet we never find Him working miracl.
for His own benefit.
8. 1.-The Jews have no dealings with thu
Samaritans"
The woman is surprised at His request
and gives this rs her reason.
10. "If thou knewest the gift of God, ant
who it is that saith to thee, Give me t(
drink, thou wouldest have asked of Him
and He would have given thee livinG
water"
Thus replied Jesus, not needing her ques
ton and statement, but, as in the case OF
Nicodemus, regarding only her soul and it.
welfare
II. "Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with
and the well is deep-from whence thei
hast thou that living water9"
We see here the same blindness that wa.
manifest in Nicodemus, proving that tn,
natural man cannot understand the thing
of God
IL. Art thou greater than our father
Jacob which gave us the well?"
ID. Jesus answered and said unto her
Whosoever drinketh of this water shall
thirst again"
Needless of her foolish questions He keep
to His subject contrasting the natural wa
ter, of which she knew, with the spiritua
or living water, of which she knew moth
ing.
IA. "But whatsoever drinketh of the waite
that l shall give him shall never thirst"
Or, as He said in chapter vi, 35, "He ths
cometh to Me shall never hunger, and b,
that believeth on Me shall never thirst"
but the water that l shall give hin
shall be in him well of water springint
up into everlasting life"
1t is Himself, the fountain, that He give
to all who receive Him.
15 "Sir, give me this water, that thirs
not, neither come hither to draw"
She is becoming interested, she forge.
the barrier between jew and Samaritan
she asks of Him, but she knows not whi
she asks, for she still thinks only of Til
water and this well.
l6. Jesus saith unto her, Go, call tn.
husband, and come hither."
Having asked for the water which Il
had to give, He will now prepare her to e
ceive it, and the first step must be conNc
ton of sin in order to the acceptance o
Himself as Gods righteousness.
II. Il have no husband. Jesus saith mt
her, Thou hast well said, have no bus
band"
She thought to deceive him, she k1ev
Him not, nor for moment imagined ina
He could read her Utmost thought
IS. For thou hast had five Husbands
and he whom thou now hast is not III
husband; in that saidst thou truly"
All things are naked and opened INT,
the eyes of Him with whom we have todo
'Sir, perceive that thou art a prophet.
Her conscience has been aroused, he
eyes are being opened; she finds that she i
CdiklnR WIFI no ordinary man.
90. "Our fathers worshiped in this mum
tain; and We say that in Jerusalem is tn
place where men ought to worship"
She would fain turn away from the iuh
ject of her own sin and lead the converse
ton into another channel
81. Jesus saith unto her, Woman, be
lieve me, the hour cometh when We shall
neither in this mountain nor yet at J,ru
salem, worship the Father"
He does not insist that Jerusalem is tn
place. He directs her away from places o
worship to the great and only objed o
worship, even God the Father. Neihe
place nor sect are the all important points
but an honest, humble heart
%. "Ye worship We know not what. w
know what we worship, for salvation 0
the Jews"
God was pleased to reveal Himself il Is
rael and through Israel to other nations.
%. But the hour cometh, and now is
when the true worshipers shall worhiI
the Father in spirit and in truth, for tn
Father seeketh such to worship Him"
Notice the words land now isl in verse
81, %.
A u Good il a Shirt and tbav TINT IN,