The Woman at the Well
by Frederick Hoehn, copyright 2014, all rights reserved.  
Chapter 1  
Jesus had to go through Samaria.  
Why did Jesus have to go through Samaria?  
Jesus prayed a lot.  Sometimes, he’d get up very early in the morning to pray.  Sometimes he’d pray all night.  
God, his Father, would show Jesus things.  God would give Jesus assignments.  
The Father wanted Jesus to go through Samaria so that Jesus would speak to the Woman at the Well.  
Here is the story from John chapter 4, from the Holy Bible, Hoehn Version, (Amazon.com).  
___John chapter 4
 1 Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John,
 2 (Though Jesus himself didn't baptize, but his disciples did,)
 3 He left Judea, and went again into Galilee.
 4 And he had to go through Samaria.
 5 Then he came to a city of Samaria that is called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
 6 Now Jacob's well was there.  Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat on the well, and it was about the sixth hour.
 7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water.  Jesus said to her, "Give me a drink."
 8 (For his disciples had gone away to the city to buy food.)
 9 Then the woman of Samaria said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask drink from me, who am a woman of Samaria?, for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans."
 10 Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that says to you, Give me a drink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."
 11 The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep, from where then do you have that living water?
 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, and his children, and his cattle?"
 13 Jesus answered her, "Whoever drinks of this water will get thirsty again,
 14 But whoever drinks of the water that I give him shall never get thirsty, but the water that I give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life."
 15 The woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water, so I don't get thirsty, nor come here to draw."
 16 Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."
 17 The woman answered, "I have no husband."  Jesus said to her, "You have well said, I have no husband,
 18 For you've had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband, in that you spoke truly."
 19 The woman said to him, "Sir, I can see that you're a prophet.
 20 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain, and you say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship."
 21 Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe me, the hour is coming, when you'll neither in this mountain, nor at Jerusalem worship the Father.
 22 You don't know what you worship, we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews.
 23 But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth, for the Father seeks such to worship him.
 24 God is a Spirit, and those who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."
 25 The woman said to him, "I know the Messiah is coming, who is called Christ, when he comes, he will tell us all things."
 26 Jesus said to her, "I that speak to you am he."
 27 And then his disciples came, and were surprised that he talked with the woman, yet no man said, "What are you looking for?", or "Why are you talking with her?"
 28 Then the woman left her water pot, and went into the city, and said to the men,
 29 "Come and see a man who told me everything I ever did, isn't this the Christ?"
 30 Then they went out of the city, and came to him.
 31 In the mean time, his disciples asked him, "Please eat, Master."
 32 But he said to them, "I have food to eat that you don't know about."
 33 Therefore the disciples said to each other, "Has anyone brought him anything to eat?"
 34 Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
 35 Don't you say, there are yet four months, and then comes the harvest?  See, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and look at the fields, for they are white already for harvesting.
 36 And he that reaps receives wages and gathers fruit yielding eternal life, so that both he that plants and he that reaps will rejoice together.
 37 And this is how that saying is true, One plants, and another harvests.
 38 I sent you to harvest what you didn't work for, other men labored, and you have entered into their labors."
 39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, who testified, "He told me everything I ever did."
 40 So when the Samaritans had come to him, they asked him to remain with them, and he stayed there two days.
 41 And many more believed because of his own word,
 42 And said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of your words, for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world."

Chapter 2  
Jesus came to the well and was somewhat wearied from his journey, so he sat on the well.  
After you dig a well, you’re supposed to build some kind of wall around it, maybe about four feet high, so that adults and children and animals don’t fall into the well.  
It was a big TV news story, years back, about Baby Jessica, who fell into a hole in the ground.  Seems like it took them most of twenty four hours to get her out.  Jessica is probably a grown woman by now.  
Jesus sat on the well, and a Samaritan woman came to draw water from the well.  Jesus asked her for a drink of water.  
That was unusual.  The Jews wouldn’t normally be asking a Samaritan for a drink of water.  
Then the woman of Samaria said to him, "How is it that you, being a Jew, ask drink from me, who am a woman of Samaria?, for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans."

Jesus answered her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that says to you, Give me a drink, you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water."  

Jesus got right to the point.  This was probably the only time during his life on earth that Jesus would be speaking to this woman.  
So the woman asks for the living water.  

Jesus said to her, "Go, call your husband, and come here."

The woman answered, "I have no husband."  Jesus said to her, "You have well said, I have no husband, for you've had five husbands, and he whom you now have is not your husband, in that you spoke truly."  

I guess that with this last man, they hadn’t gotten around yet to getting married.  

The woman perceived that Jesus was a prophet.  Prophets know things that wouldn’t normally be known.  

The woman said to him, "I know the Messiah is coming, who is called Christ, when he comes, he will tell us all things."  

Jesus said to her, "I that speak to you am he."  

Then the woman left her water pot, and went into the city, and said to the men, "Come and see a man who told me everything I ever did, isn't this the Christ?"  

Then they went out of the city, and came to him.

And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, who testified, "He told me everything I ever did."
So when the Samaritans had come to him, they asked him to remain with them, and he stayed there two days.  

And many more believed because of his own word, and said to the woman, "Now we believe, not because of your words, for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world."  

So the Samaritans got to meet, and hear, and believe in Jesus, the Messiah, the Savior of the world.  

___James chapter 1
 1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes that are dispersed around, greetings.
 2 My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into various temptations,
 3 Knowing this, that the testing of your faith works patience.
 4 But let patience have its perfect work, so you'll be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.
 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God for it, who gives to all men liberally, and won't find fault, and it shall be given to him.
 6 But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering.  For he that wavers is like a wave of the sea driven by the wind and tossed.
 7 For let that man not think that he'll receive anything from the Lord.
 8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.
 9 Let the brother of low degree rejoice in that he is exalted,
 10 But the rich, in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he'll pass away.
 11 For the sun has no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withers the grass, and the flower of it falls, and the grace of the fashion of it perishes, so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.
 12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation, for after he's been tested, he'll receive the crown of life, that the Lord has promised to those who love him.
 13 Let no man say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God," for God can't be tempted with evil, nor does he tempt any man,
 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed.
 15 Then when lust has conceived, it produces sin, and sin when it's finished, produces death.
 16 Do not err, my beloved brothers.
 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, nor shadow of turning.
 18 He chose to father us with the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.
 19 So, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,
 20 For the anger of man doesn't accomplish the righteousness of God.
 21 So, lay apart all filthiness and the unnecessary naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like a man seeing his natural face in a mirror,
 24 For he sees himself, and goes his way, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.
 25 But whoever looks into the perfect law of liberty, and continues in it, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
 26 If any man among you seems to be religious, and doesn't bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, this man's religion is for nothing.
 27 Pure religion and undefiled before God the Father is this, to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

___James chapter 2
 1 My brothers, don't have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.
 2 For if a man with a gold ring comes to your assembly in fancy clothes, and a poor man in dirty clothes comes in also,
 3 And you have respect to him that wears the fancy clothes, and say to him, "Sit here in a good place," and say to the poor, "Stand there, or sit here under my footstool,"
 4 Aren't you then partial in yourselves, and have become judges with evil thoughts?
 5 Listen, my beloved brothers, hasn't God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him?
 6 But you have despised the poor.  Don't rich men oppress you, and bring you before the judgment seats?
 7 Don't they blaspheme that worthy name by which you're called?
 8 If you fulfill the royal law according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor like yourself," you do well,
 9 But if you have respect of persons, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as sinners.
 10 For whoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.
 11 For he that said, "Do not commit adultery," also said, "Do not kill."  Now if you don't commit adultery, yet if you kill, you've become a breaker of the law.
 12 Speak in such a way, and do, as those who'll be judged by the law of liberty.
 13 For he shall have judgment without mercy, that has shown no mercy, and mercy rejoices against judgment.
 14 What does it profit, my brothers, though a man says he has faith, and doesn't have works?  Can faith save him?
 15 If a brother or sister needs clothes, and lacks daily food,
 16 And one of you says to them, "Depart in peace, be warmed and filled," but you don't give them the things that are needed for the body, what good is that?
 17 Even so faith, if it doesn't have works, is dead, being alone.
 18 Yes, a man could say, "You have faith, and I have works, show me your faith without your works, and I'll show you my faith by my works."
 19 You believe that there is one God, you do well, the devils also believe, and tremble.
 20 But don't you know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
 21 Wasn't Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son on the altar?
 22 Do you see how faith worked with his deeds, and by works faith was made perfect?
 23 And the scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness, and he was called the friend of God."
 24 You see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
 25 Likewise also wasn't Rahab the prostitute justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?
 26 For like the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

___James chapter 3
 1 My brothers, don't be many masters, knowing that we'll receive the greater condemnation.
 2 For in many things we offend all.  If any man doesn't offend in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.
 3 See, we put bits in the horses' mouths, so they'll obey us, and we turn around their whole bodies.
 4 Look also at the ships, which though they're so large, and are driven by fierce winds, yet they're turned around by a very small helm, wherever the captain wants.
 5 Even so, the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things.  See how great a matter a little fire kindles!
 6 And the tongue is a fire, a world of sin, so is the tongue among our members that it makes dirty the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and it is set on fire by hell.
 7 For every kind of animals, and of birds, and of snakes, and of things in the sea, gets tamed, and has been tamed by mankind,
 8 But no man can tame the tongue, it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
 9 With it we bless God, the Father, and with it we curse men, who are made after the likeness of God.
 10 Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing.  My brothers, these things ought not to be.
 11 Does a fountain send out at the same place sweet water and bitter?
 12 Can the fig tree, my brothers, produce olive berries?  Or a vine, figs?  So no fountain can yield both salt water and fresh.
 13 Who is a wise man, possessing knowledge among you?  Let him show out of a good lifestyle his works with meekness of wisdom.
 14 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, don't glory, and don't lie against the truth.
 15 This wisdom doesn't descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be reasoned with, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
 18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace by those who make peace.

___James chapter 4
 1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from?  Don't they come from your lusts that war in your members?
 2 You lust, and don't have, you kill, and desire to have, and can't obtain, you fight and war, yet you don't have, because you don't ask.
 3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask wrongly, so you can consume it on your lusts.
 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God?  Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world is an enemy of God.
 5 Do you think that the scripture says for nothing, "The spirit that lives in us lusts to envy?"
 6 But he gives more grace.  So he says, "God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble."
 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God.  Resist the devil, and he'll run away from you.
 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.  Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double minded.
 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and cry, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he'll lift you up.
 11 Don't speak evil about each other, brothers.  He that speaks evil about his brother, and judges his brother, speaks evil about the law, and judges the law, but if you judge the law, you're not a doer of the law, but a judge.
 12 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy, who are you that judges someone else?
 13 Go on now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we'll go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and make a profit,"
 14 Actually, you don't know what will happen tomorrow.  For what is your life?  It is a puff of steam, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
 15 For you ought to say, "Lord willing, we'll live, and do this, or that."
 16 But now you rejoice in your boastings, all such rejoicing is evil.
 17 Therefore to him that knows to do good, and doesn't do it, to him it is sin.

___James chapter 5
 1 Go on now, you rich men, cry and howl for your miseries that shall come on you.
 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your clothes are moth eaten.
 3 Your gold and silver are rusted, and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire.  You've heaped treasure together for the last days.
 4 See, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you've kept back by fraud, shouts, and the shouts of those who've reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabbath.
 5 You've lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton, you've nourished your hearts, like in a day of slaughter.
 6 You've condemned and killed the just, and he doesn't resist you.
 7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord.  See, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and latter rain.
 8 You also be patient.  Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is getting near.
 9 Don't grudge against each other, brothers, so you won't be condemned, see, the judge stands at the door.
 10 Take, my brothers, the prophets, who've spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
 11 See, we count them happy that endure.  You've heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
 12 But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, not by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath, but let your yes be yes, and your no, no, so that you don't fall into condemnation.
 13 Is anyone among you afflicted?  Let him pray.  Is anyone merry?  Let him sing psalms.
 14 Is anyone sick among you?  Let him call for the elders of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,
 15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if he has committed sins, he'll be forgiven.
 16 Confess your faults to each other, and pray for each other so you'll be healed.  The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man is does a lot of good.
 17 Elijah was a man subject to the same kind of passions that we are, and he prayed earnestly that it wouldn't rain, and it didn't rain on the earth for three years and six months.
 18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
 19 Brothers, if any of you strays from the truth, and someone converts him,
 20 Let him know, that he that converts the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.