NIGHT PRAYER: Friday 3/10

Jesus came to a town of Samaria called Sychar,
    near the plot of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph.
Jacob’s well was there.
Jesus, tired from his journey, sat down there at the well.
It was about noon.

A Samaritan woman came to draw water.

Jesus said to her,
    “Give me a drink.”
The Samaritan woman said to him,
    “How can you, a Jew,

        ask
me, a Samaritan 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 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 don’t have a husband.”
Jesus answered her,
    “You’re right in saying, ‘I don’t
have a husband.’

        For you’ve had five husbands,

            and the one you have now
is not your husband.

        What you have said is true.”
The woman said to him,
    “Sir, I can see that you are a
prophet.

    Our ancestors worshiped on this
mountain;

        but you people say that
the place to worship

            is
in Jerusalem.”
Jesus said to her,
    “Believe me, woman, the hour is
coming

        when you will worship
the Father

            neither on this
mountain nor in Jerusalem.

    You people worship what you do
not understand;

        we worship what we
understand,
          because
salvation is from the Jews.

    But the hour is coming, and is
now here,

        when true worshipers
will worship the Father

            in
Spirit and truth;
        and indeed the Father
seeks such people

            to
worship him.

    God is Spirit, and those who
worship him

        must worship in Spirit and
truth.”

The woman said to him,
    “I know that the Messiah is
coming,

        the
one called the Christ, the Anointed,

    and when he comes, he will tell us
everything.”
Jesus said to her,
    “I am he, the one speaking with
you.”

The woman left her water jar
and went into the town and said to the people,
    “Come see a man who told me
everything I have done.

        Could he possibly be the Christ?”
They went out of the town and came to him.

Many of the Samaritans of that town began to
believe in him
    because of the word of the woman who
testified,
        “He told me everything I
have done.”

When the Samaritans came to him,
    they invited him to stay with
them;
        and he stayed there two
days.
Many more began to believe in him because of his word,
    and they said to the woman,
         “We no longer believe because of
your word;

                for we have heard for
ourselves,

        and we know that this is truly
the savior of the world.”

Woman at the Well by Daniel Bonnell 

What’s being shared in the silence here?

Samaritan Woman at the Well by Michael Torevell

Imagine meeting Jesus in the midday heat

The Well by Mike Moyers

    your heart and your prayer? 

The woman tried to hide her past from Jesus:

    your heart and your prayer?  

Insight by Sieger Koder

The woman peers into the well,

Having met Jesus, the woman leaves the well