3rd Sunday in Lent

John 4:5-26

Jesus offers the waters of eternal life

Our Old Testament and our Gospel lessons both feature water

prominently. In Exodus 17, as the Israelites are trudging through the

wilderness, they grumble that they can't find anything to drink. It's not just

that they were thirsty. They were doubting whether or not God was really

with them. But the Lord had mercy on them, told Moses to go hit a rock, and

it gushed enough water for thousands upon thousands (millions perhaps) of Israelites to drink.

In John 4, Jesus bumps into a Samaritan woman at Jacob's well and asks her for a drink. But

even though he's asked her for a drink, Jesus says reveals that he is able to give her living water.

Still thinking about the stuff in the well, the woman basically says, “but you don't have a bucket.”

But Jesus isn't talking about the kind of water that came from the well or the rock, but the water of

eternal life.