I Am He (John 4:1-42)
Carl Heinrich Bloch - Woman at the Well He asks me for a drink of water. The man, a Jew, who sees me for what I am, but still, does not condemn my flesh. I have known many like him, those who claim a special union with the God of my ancestors. Do I know of Messiah? Do I believe he will come to rescue the house of Israel? Is Samaria included in the liberation? Stories, told by my angry father. Stories told by a couple of my husbands, amid laughter and cheap wine, I do not share this thought with the Jew at the well. He looks to be neither a warrior nor a charlatan. Why would he ask me for a drink? My ancestors worshiped on this mountain. We do not journey to the temple in Jerusalem and offer doves and unblemished lambs to God. He should not consider us clean. He speaks of life giving water, living water. I will never thirst again if I drink the water he offers. How can that be, the dust of this l...