The gospel today of how Jesus dialogues with the woman at the Samaritan well is really about the fact that God is not to be worshiped in places or temples but in the hearts of people who are imitating God in spirit. It’s a spiritual way to approach God.
This morning we’re reading about Jesus being tempted in the desert. It’s a temptation against his role as son as he’s just been affirmed the son. Jesus resp that man lives by God’s word, not just bread, and that only God should be worshipped.
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Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:32 First Reading
5:38 Bishop David Walker
10:19 Mrs Virginia Ryan
11:38 Fr John Frauenfelder
13:05 Self Reflection
13:17 Second Reading
20:15 Bishop David Walker
20:52 Mrs Virginia Ryan
21:17 Fr John Frauenfelder
21:53 Self Reflection
22:28 Farewell & Final Prayer
5 So he came to the Samaritan town called Sychar, near
the land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6 Jacob’s well was
there and Jesus, tired by the journey, was sitting by the well. It was
about noon, 7 when a Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus
said to her, ‘Give me a drink.’ 8 His disciples had gone into the town
to buy food. 9 The Samaritan said to him, ‘How is it that you, a Jew,
ask me, a Samaritan woman, for a drink?’ – for Jews do not associate
with Samaritans.b 10 Jesus replied to her:
‘If you knew what God is offering
and who it is saying to you, “Give me a drink”,
you would have asked him,
and he would have given you living water.’c
11 She answered, ‘Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep.
Where do you get this living water? 12 Are you a greater man than
our father Jacob, who gave us this well and drank from it, himself
and his sons and his cattle?’ 13 Jesus replied:
‘Whoever drinks of this water
will be thirsty again;
14 but anyone who drinks of the water that I shall give
will never be thirsty again:
the water that I shall give
will become an inner spring of water, welling up to eternal life.’
15 The woman said to him, ‘Sir, give me this water, so that I may
never be thirsty or go on coming here to draw water.’ 16 Jesus said
to her, ‘Go and call your husband and come back here.’ 17 The
woman answered him saying, ‘I have no husband.’ Jesus said to her,
‘You are right to say, “I have no husband”; 18 for you have had fived
men, and the one you now have is not your husband. You spoke the
truth there.’ 19 The woman said to him, ‘Sir, I see you are a
prophet. 20 Our fathers worshipped on this mountain,e though you
say that the place where people should worship is in Jerusalem.’ 21
Jesus said:
‘Believe me, woman, the hour is coming
when you will worship the Father
neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
22 You worship what you do not know;
we worship what we do know;
for salvation is from the Jews.
23 But the hour is coming – and is now here –
when true worshippers will worship the Father in spirit and truth,f
for such are the worshippers
whom the Father seeks.
24 God is spirit,
and those who worship him
must worship in spirit and truth.’
25 The woman said to him, ‘I know that Messiah, the one called
Christ, is coming; and when he comes he will declare everything.’
26 Jesus said, ‘I am he, the one who is speaking to you.’
27 At this point his disciples returned and were surprised to find
him speaking to a woman, but none of them asked, ‘What do you
want?’ or, ‘Why are you talking to her?’
and you have come into the rewards of their labour.’g
39 Many Samaritans of that town believed in him on the strength
of the words of the woman’s witness, ‘He told me everything I have
done.’ 40 So, when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to
stay with them. He stayed there for two days, and 41 many more
came to believe on the strength of the words he spoke to them; 42
and they said to the woman, ‘We believe no longer because of what
you told us; we have heard for ourselves and we know that this is
truly the Saviour of the world.’
Jesus in Galilee
43 When the two days were over, Jesus left there for Galilee, 44 for
Jesus himself had borne witness that a prophet is not honoured in
his own country. 45 On his arrival the Galileans received him well,
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having seen all that he had done in Jerusalem during the festival, for
they too had attended the festival.