Jesus and the Samaritan woman

1When, then, the Lord understood that the Pharisees had heard: Jesus makes and baptizes more disciples than John 2 (although Jesus did not baptize, but his disciples), 3he left Judea, and went again to Galilee. 4And it was necessary for him to go through Samaria. 5So he came to a city in Samaria called Sychar, next to the inheritance that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6And Jacob's well was there. Then Jesus, tired from the road, sat like this by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7 A woman from Samaria came to draw water; and Jesus said to him: Give me a drink. 8For his disciples had gone to the city to buy food. 9The Samaritan woman said to him, How do you, being a Jew, ask me to drink, that I am a Samaritan woman? Because Jews and Samaritans did not treat each other. 10Jesus answered and said to him: If you knew the gift of God, and who is it that says to you: Give me to drink; you would ask him, and he would give you living water. 11The woman said to him, "Sir, you have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where, then, do you have living water? 12Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us this well, from which he, his sons, and his cattle drank? 13Jesus answered and said to him, "Whoever drinks of this water will be thirsty again; 14mas the one that drinks of the water that I will give him, will never be thirsty; but the water that I will give him will be in him a source of water that jumps for eternal life. 15The woman said to him: Lord, give me that water, so that I will not be thirsty, nor come here to draw it.
16Jesús said to him: Go, call your husband, and come here. 17The woman answered and said: I have no husband. Jesus said to her: You have well said: I have no husband; 18for you have had five husbands, and the one you now have is not your husband; this you have said with truth. 19The woman said to him, Lord, it seems to me that you are a prophet. 20Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you say that Jerusalem is the place to worship. 21Jesus said to her, Woman, believe me, the hour is coming when you will not worship the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem. 22You worship what you do not know; we love what we know; because salvation comes from the Jews. 23But the hour is coming, and now is, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth; because the Father also such worshipers seeks to be worshiped. 24God is Spirit; and those who worship him, in spirit and in truth, must worship. 25The woman said to him, I know that the Messiah, called the Christ, is to come; when he comes he will declare all things to us. 26Jesús said to him: I am, the one that speaks with you.
27At this his disciples came, and marveled that he was speaking to a woman; however, none said: What questions? Or, what are you talking to her? 28Then the woman left her pitcher and went to the city and said to the men, 29Come, see a man who has told me everything I have done. Is not this the Christ? 30Then they left the city and came to him.
31Meanwhile, the disciples asked him, saying: Rabbi, eat. 32He said to them: I have a meal to eat that you do not know. 33Then the disciples said to one another, Has anyone brought him something to eat? 34Jesus said to them, My food is that I do the will of the one who sent me, and that I finish his work. 35 Do you not say: There are still four months until the harvest comes? Behold, I say to you, Lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are already white for harvest. 36And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, so that he who sows may rejoice together with him who reaps. 37For in this the saying is true: One is he who sows, and another is he who reaps. 38I have sent you to reap what you did not till; others worked, and you have entered into their labors.
39And many of the Samaritans in that city believed in him through the word of the woman, who testified saying, He told me everything I have done. 40Then the Samaritans came to him and asked him to stay with them; And he stayed there two days. 41And many more believed because of his word, 42and they said to the woman: We no longer believe only because of your saying, because we ourselves have heard, and we know that this is truly the Savior of the world, the Christ.

Comments to reading

This reading invites each one of us to renew the freshness, strength, and power of baptism, through the parable of the encounter between Jesus and the Samaritan woman, which contains several symbols, several comparisons that each of us would have to apply. us to our life.
The first important sign: God meets all kinds of people, all kinds of people, we must remember that in Jesus' time, the Hebrews were the chosen people, they considered that only they were worthy of eternal salvation, according to these beliefs, the Samaritans were not worthy of being saved, but Jesus does not come to save the chosen people, he comes to save all humanity "The stone that those who built rejected, This was made by the head of the corner: By the Lord is done this, and is it a wonderful thing in our eyes? ” (Matthew 21:42), that is, Jesus, through his ministry comes to give eternal life to all human beings, not only to the chosen people.
A second important sign is that Jesus is the bearer of living water, that is, Jesus is the water that leads to eternal life, that is, Jesus is eternal life, God is the one who creates life and sustains it, in all its aspects our physical, spiritual and eternal life, Jesus Christ rose from the dead and ascended to heaven, as a sign of the commitment made to all those who kept his commandments and who had faith, also shows it when he raised Lazarus from the death, Lazarus had been buried, when Jesus says to Martha: “25 Jesus said to him: I am the resurrection and the life; He who believes in me, even though he is dead, will live.26 And everyone who lives and believes in me will not die forever. Do you believe this? ” (John 11: 25-26)
Related to the previous sign, there is the third sign, which is that we attain eternal life when we adhere by faith to Jesus and we recognize him as redeemer, as savior of the world, remember that we were banished from the tree of life, in Eden, by rebelling and disobeying the Lord our God, well, by his infinite mercy, God, allows us access to eternal life through Jesus Christ, his only begotten son the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29).