Jesus and the Samaritan Woman

Scriptural text: John 4:1-27

Characters: Reader, Jesus, the Woman

Stage Properties: An improvised well curbing, bucket on pulley

Reader: The Pharisees heard that Jesus made more disciples and babtized more than John. They were always jealous of Jesus, and when Jesus heard this, he passed from Judea and went to Galilee. Most of the Jews would go around Samaria instead of going through because they hated the Samaritans and treated them like dogs. Jesus came to the city of Sychar in Samaria and stopped at the well, called Jacob’s well, to rest. A woman came to get water at the well while Jesus was resting.

Jesus: Woman, give me a drink of water.

Woman: Why do you ask me for a drink? I am a Samaritan, you are a Jew, and the Jews do not have anything to do with Samaritans?

Jesus: If you knew the gift of God, and who I am who asks you for a drink, you would have asked me and I would have given you living water.

Woman: Sir, you don’t have anything with which to draw water and the well is deep. How then can you get living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob who dug the well?

Jesus: Whoever drinks of this water will get thirsty again, but the water I shall give him shall be like a spring of water that will give everlasting life.

Woman: Sir, give me a drink of this water so that I won’t thirst again or have to come here to draw water again.

Jesus: Go, call your husband.

Woman: I have no husband.

Jesus: You are right. You have no husband. You have had five husbands, but the one you have now is not your husband.

Woman: Sir, I believe you are a prophet. Our fathers worshipped in the mountain, but you say we should go to Jerusalem to worship.

Jesus: Woman, believe me that the hour will come when you will not worship in the mountain or at Jerusalem. True worshippers will worship God in spirit and in truth. God is a spirit and they that worship him will worship him in spirit and in truth.

Woman: I know that the Messiah will come and tell us all true things.

Jesus: I am He.

Reader: About this time the disciples came, and the woman ran to the city. The disciples could not understand why Jesus was talking with the Samaritan woman. She went to the city and told about all the things Jesus had said and done.