And many more believed because of His message.Many more believed because of his word.And many more believed because of his own word;And many more believed because of his word;
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… He stayed in Samaria. And many more believed because of his word. They said to the woman, it's no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves. And we know that this is indeed the Savior of the world. Now, do you think when this happened, this Samaritan woman thought, Maybe Jesus doesn't love me as much as I thought. No. This Samaritan woman thought, he loves me and all my people, all the Samaritans, and not just the Samaritans, he's the savior of the world. Oh, see this today. It is so simple yet so profound. Jesus knows you. Jesus loves you. and not just you. He loves the world. He's come to bring salvation, living water to the world. So stop and look at the ones in your world and see them like he sees them. Every single person in your workplace. I just picture their faces right now in your school. in your neighborhood, at your gym, in the store, at that restaurant, every single face that is coming to your mind, every single face you see, every one of them has the same thirsts, a thirst to believe. …
woman for a drink, for Jews use nothing in common with Samaritans. Jesus answered and said to her, If you knew the gift of God, and who is saying to you, give me a drink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water. The woman said to him, Sir, you do not even have a bucket, and the cistern is deep. Where then can you get us this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this cistern and drank from it himself with his children and his flocks. Jesus answered and said to her, Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I shall give will never thirst. The water I shall give will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life. The woman said to him, Sir, give me this water so that I may not be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water. Jesus said to her, Go, call your husband and come back. The woman answered and said to him, I do not have a husband. …
… woman who testified, he told me all that I ever did. And so when the Samaritans had come to him, they urged him to stay with them, and he stayed two days, and many more believed because of his own word. And then they said to the woman, now we believe not because of what you said, but we ourselves have heard him, and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world. Let us pray. We plead with thee, O Father, to give us ears to hear that which we have just read. give us understanding that we may understand what that woman understood and what through her testimony and their encounter with Jesus himself, what those of Samaria came to understand as well. For we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. Last week we saw that Jesus shocked the Samaritan woman by calling to her attention her checkered past in terms of her marital and extramarital relationships, and she was astonished that Jesus knew her, and presumably to change the subject she mentioned that He must be a prophet, and so she put to the prophet a theological question, a question that had been debated for many years between the Jews and the Samaritans, and that was the question on where was the proper central sanctuary where the Lord would receive worship. …