If you want to know if Jesus can be trusted, watch how he treats people. Jesus often intentionally blows people’s minds by surprising them in everyday life. There was a woman that was especially surprised by Jesus for two major reasons. In His day, Jewish people did not associate with Samaritans because of a long standing ugly history. It was also very common for Jewish men to totally ignore women or treat them as second class citizens. Let’s watch as Jesus meets a Samaritan woman trying to draw water at a well.

Samaritan Woman (3:42)

Jesus completely blows this woman’s mind and she leaves her water jar and runs away into her town and begins telling the people…

“Come, see a Man Who has told me everything that I ever did! Can this be [is not this] the Christ?” [Must not this be the Messiah, the Anointed One?]

(John 4:29 AMPC)

As Jesus spoke with the woman, He made it very clear that having a relationship with God would no longer be about religious locations. She tried to talk about places that it was culturally acceptable to worship. Jesus cut to the chase and said…

“Woman, believe Me, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither [merely] in this mountain nor [merely] in Jerusalem.”

(John 4:21 AMPC)

He explains that true worship is spiritual and based on truth, not cultural customs.

“A time will come, however, indeed it is already here, when the true (genuine) worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth (reality); for the Father is seeking just such people as these as His worshipers. God is a Spirit (a spiritual Being) and those who worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth (reality).

(John 4:23-24 AMPC)

Let’s pick up the story directly from the Gospel of John Chapter 4. Notice that even though the woman went and told the people in their village about Jesus, they had to experience Him for themselves to see how incredibly unique He was.

Samaritan Village (3:42)