The Gospel of John. Ch 4. Pt 2. Nobleman meets Yeshua.

Truth In Scripture Pastor Rick Kabrick Thursday, March 27, 2025 The Gospel of John. Ch 4. Pt 2. Nobleman meets Yeshua.
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The route normally followed by Jewish travelers heading north from Judea to Galilee passed through Samaria. The alternative was to cross the Jordan near Jericho, travel north up the east bank, and cross back to the west bank near the Lake of Galilee. Many Jews took the longer route to avoid contact with the Samaritans. How common that was is debatable, but it has an application here, Yeshua had to go there to break a tradition…
MAT 16:26, What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit (lose) their soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul?
About 400 BC the Samaritans built a rival temple on Mount Gerizim; it was a rival to the one in Jerusalem.Later Jews from Judea destroyed that temple on Mt. Gerezim and this further fueled the animosity between the Samaritans and the Jews.
It is a sculpture of Adam…Adam and the woman given one rule…don’t eat of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil. But they did. So, this is Adam is looking into the gates of hell and thinking what have I done! Thankfully, the LORD had a plan…a Savior, and that Savior had talked to Nicodemus, and now was right in front of this woman.
The route normally followed by Jewish travelers heading north from Judea to Galilee passed through Samaria. The alternative was to cross the Jordan near Jericho, travel north up the east bank, and cross back to the west bank near the Lake of Galilee. Many Jews took the longer route to avoid contact with the Samaritans. Yeshua had to go there to break a tradition…
11 “Sir,” the woman said, “you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? 12 Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?”
This was not a strange request. In any public conversation with a man and a woman, it was inappropriate to do so without the woman’s husband, if she had one. Of course this also had another purpose.
DEU 18:17-18, “And the LORD said to me (Moses): ‘What they have spoken is good.‘I will raise up for them a Prophet like you from among their brethren, and will put MY words in HIS mouth, and HE shall speak to them all that I command HIM.
However, they drew conflicting conclusions from this…influenced by the secular world…The Jews concluded Jerusalem was the place: There David determined to build a temple to GOD, and his son Solomon built it.The Samaritans noted that Shechem in the plains of Mount Gerizim. There at Shechem Abraham built an altar. So to the Samaritans, everything happened on Mt Gerizim.