Sentences with phrase «samaritan woman at the well»

Plus, it might be interesting to note that the first person to whom Jesus revealed Himself as the Messiah was an ostracized Samaritan woman at a well.

I declined as I didn't want to profit from this gift I was given, but as I know from the story of the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4 that the Lord uses testimonies to draw others to Himself, so at my own expense I had my testimony printed at a local print shop for a few hundred dollars, and am distributing it with New Testaments to people as the Lord leads.

Jesus told the samaritan woman at the well she had five husbands and she was never «married by law».

To illustrate this point, we shall briefly consider what is surely one of the most eloquent descriptions of such an encounter: Jesus's meeting with the Samaritan woman at the well of Jacob (Jn 4).

In many societies worldwide, the story of the Samaritan woman at the well can still startle.

From the parable of the Good Samaritan, to meeting the samaritan woman at the well, Jesus shocked the culture of his time by ignoring accepted tribal divisions.

Jesus met a Samaritan woman at a well.

Using Jesus» encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well and the parable of the Good Samaritan, Carroll argues that Jesus models for us the appropriate response to those neighbors who stand outside our communities.

As Jesus» action at the wedding at Cana reminds us we, like the water, need to be transformed into wine, and as the story of the Samaritan woman at the well shows we are all wounded people in need of healing and love.

Not exact matches

I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

Unlike the other women, the Samaritan woman approaches the well at the hottest time of the day.

Followers like the woman at the well, Samaritans, lepers.

I've been especially drawn to Rebekah, Tamar, Deborah, Vashti, Ruth, Mary, Martha, Junia, Tabitha, the woman who bled (Matthew 9), the Samaritan at the well (John 4), Saint Teresa of Avila and St. Clare of Assisi.

On many counts it seems extraordinary that it took place at all: a man and a woman in public; a Jew and a Samaritan; a transient and a citizen; one offering living water and another caught in the ceaseless rounds of drawing water at the well.

I lean towards the third view... but I admit it is the most difficult of the three views... Christ's priorities appear to be «love in motion» flowing in almost unpredictable directions as dictated by the greatest need: — He heals a slave rather than rebukes slavery; — He heals a man at a pool, then leads the man to belief, then says «cease from sinning»; — He heals many others and says «go and sin no more» to but a few; — He shares money with the poor but establishes no long - term aid; — He touches lepers; He converses with seeking Pharisees; He debates with other Pharisees; He lives with Samaritan outcasts for two days; — He acknowledges the five «marriages» of the Samaritan woman as «marriages»... and then remarks about her current co-habitation... but then moves to higher priorities; — He seems so very focused on internal holiness and not on external holiness; — He violates the Sabbath; He says He is Lord of the Sabbath; He even says that the Sabbath was created to assist man, rather than man created to serve the Sabbath... thus turning the entire concept of the Law into one of assistance rather than being chained to obedience; — He insists on impartiality in the way we bless others, even if we call them «evil» or «good».

From his female disciples, to the woman caught in adultery, to the Samaritan at the well, He broke with social convention to show compassion and respect for women time and time again.

Didn't Jesus speak salvation to a sinful woman at a well and she witnessed to her Samaritan city and was credited for bringing some of them to Christ?John4v39.

My first job was in women's retail, but my real passion was volunteering at Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove.