Day 6- Jesus Offers Living Water
Day 6- Jesus Offers Living Water
Jesus and His disciples leave Jerusalem to return to Galilee in the north. The route they walk is typically a three day journey of about 20-25 miles each day. On their way, they pass through the region of Samaria and near the town of Sychar. Jesus, weary from His walk--they had likely been walking since dawn to avoid the midday heat and perhaps had walked as many as twenty miles, sits down beside a well to rest while his disciples go into town for food. Here He meets a woman during the hot afternoon sun coming from the town to draw water. He asks her for a drink and uses the opportunity to talk about the Living Water from The Source that leads to Eternal Life. “Those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.” This conversation turns into a three day layover before He and His disciples resume their northern trek to Galilee. Once in Galilee Jesus performs a miracle for a royal official's son in Cana, the same town where He performed His first miracle and turned water into wine for a wedding celebration.
Jesus and His disciples leave Jerusalem to return to Galilee in the north. The route they walk is typically a three day journey of about 20-25 miles each day. On their way, they pass through the region of Samaria and near the town of Sychar. Jesus, weary from His walk--they had likely been walking since dawn to avoid the midday heat and perhaps had walked as many as twenty miles, sits down beside a well to rest while his disciples go into town for food. Here He meets a woman during the hot afternoon sun coming from the town to draw water. He asks her for a drink and uses the opportunity to talk about the Living Water from The Source that leads to Eternal Life. “Those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.” This conversation turns into a three day layover before He and His disciples resume their northern trek to Galilee. Once in Galilee Jesus performs a miracle for a royal official's son in Cana, the same town where He performed His first miracle and turned water into wine for a wedding celebration.
