Jesus went to the city of Samaria where Joseph's old well was to drink. There He met a Samaritan woman at the well, and told her, "give me drink". The Samaritans were foreigners, and the Jews would not have anything to do with them. That is why the Samaritan woman thought it strange that Jesus spoke to her. Jesus then mentions to her that He has the "living water" which she should desire if she had known Who He is. The conversation gets more interesting after that...
John 4:10-22
10 Jesus answered and said unto her, "If thou knewest the gift of God, and Who it is That saith to thee, 'Give me to drink'; thou wouldest have asked of Him, and He would have given thee living water.
11 The woman saith unto him, "Sir, Thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast Thou that living water?
12 Art Thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
Of course the woman does not understand how Jesus is pointing to the miraculous 'living waters of life' of God's River that is part of Christ's future Salvation per Revelation 22 and Ezekiel 47.
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, "Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."
15 The woman saith unto him, "Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw."
16 Jesus saith unto her, "Go, call thy husband, and come hither."
THIS is where it's important to really pay attention. Lord Jesus asks the Samaritan woman to go get her husband.
17 The woman answered and said, "I have no husband." Jesus said unto her, "Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly."
The Samaritan woman declared she had no husband. Jesus claims she said true, because she has had 5 husbands, and even the one she was living with then was not her husband. If you are paying attention so far, you'll find out later here there is some deeper 'strong meat' teaching with that idea of 5 husbands.
19 The woman saith unto Him, "Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and Ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship."
Wait just one minute! WHY... did the subject of her past husbands suddenly CHANGE to the topic of WORSHIP?
21 Jesus saith unto her, "Woman, believe Me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews."
KJV
This is where it's important to have studied your Old Testament history.
That area of Samaria originally was where the ten tribes of Israel once dwelt before they fell into false worship, and God removed them all by the kings of Assyria (see 2 Kings 17). What the Assyrian kings did then was replace the ten tribes in those lands above Jerusalem/Judea with foreigners from Babylon. Peoples from Babylon from FIVE PROVINCES IN BABYLON, each with their own FALSE GOD, were placed in that are of Samaria, and that most likely is where that Samaritan woman's ancestry was from.
The 5 HUSBANDS the Samaritan woman had represented those FIVE PAGAN BABYLON PEOPLES placed in those old lands that had belonged to the ten tribes of Israel.
And Lord Jesus even said the SIXTH ONE SHE WAS THEN LIVING WITH, was not her real husband either. So WHO represents the SIXTH ONE in relation to false worship? Yes, the strong meat of what Lord Jesus is showing here is about SPIRITUAL MARRIAGE TO THE WRONG HUSBAND.
2 Cor 11:2-3
2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one Husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
KJV
Lord Jesus Christ is our TRUE HUSBAND, and we are to wait for Him to come. So Lord Jesus is giving a strong meat lesson in this idea also with that Samaritan woman. Without having read the Old Testament history about the kings of Assyria placing those FIVE BABYLON peoples in the lands of Samaria, the strong meat of this would have been missed.
John 4:10-22
10 Jesus answered and said unto her, "If thou knewest the gift of God, and Who it is That saith to thee, 'Give me to drink'; thou wouldest have asked of Him, and He would have given thee living water.
11 The woman saith unto him, "Sir, Thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast Thou that living water?
12 Art Thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?
Of course the woman does not understand how Jesus is pointing to the miraculous 'living waters of life' of God's River that is part of Christ's future Salvation per Revelation 22 and Ezekiel 47.
13 Jesus answered and said unto her, "Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again:
14 But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."
15 The woman saith unto him, "Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw."
16 Jesus saith unto her, "Go, call thy husband, and come hither."
THIS is where it's important to really pay attention. Lord Jesus asks the Samaritan woman to go get her husband.
17 The woman answered and said, "I have no husband." Jesus said unto her, "Thou hast well said, I have no husband:
18 For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly."
The Samaritan woman declared she had no husband. Jesus claims she said true, because she has had 5 husbands, and even the one she was living with then was not her husband. If you are paying attention so far, you'll find out later here there is some deeper 'strong meat' teaching with that idea of 5 husbands.
19 The woman saith unto Him, "Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet.
20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and Ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship."
Wait just one minute! WHY... did the subject of her past husbands suddenly CHANGE to the topic of WORSHIP?
21 Jesus saith unto her, "Woman, believe Me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father.
22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews."
KJV
This is where it's important to have studied your Old Testament history.
That area of Samaria originally was where the ten tribes of Israel once dwelt before they fell into false worship, and God removed them all by the kings of Assyria (see 2 Kings 17). What the Assyrian kings did then was replace the ten tribes in those lands above Jerusalem/Judea with foreigners from Babylon. Peoples from Babylon from FIVE PROVINCES IN BABYLON, each with their own FALSE GOD, were placed in that are of Samaria, and that most likely is where that Samaritan woman's ancestry was from.
The 5 HUSBANDS the Samaritan woman had represented those FIVE PAGAN BABYLON PEOPLES placed in those old lands that had belonged to the ten tribes of Israel.
And Lord Jesus even said the SIXTH ONE SHE WAS THEN LIVING WITH, was not her real husband either. So WHO represents the SIXTH ONE in relation to false worship? Yes, the strong meat of what Lord Jesus is showing here is about SPIRITUAL MARRIAGE TO THE WRONG HUSBAND.
2 Cor 11:2-3
2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one Husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
KJV
Lord Jesus Christ is our TRUE HUSBAND, and we are to wait for Him to come. So Lord Jesus is giving a strong meat lesson in this idea also with that Samaritan woman. Without having read the Old Testament history about the kings of Assyria placing those FIVE BABYLON peoples in the lands of Samaria, the strong meat of this would have been missed.