Chapter 81: Jesus and the Samaritan Woman

The woman said: “Why do you say that only in Jerusalem men ought to pray, and that they should not worship in our holy mount?”

(25) And Jesus said: “What you have said, I do no say. One place is just as sacred as another place.” (26) “The hour 🌤️ has come when men must worship 🤲 God within the temple of the heart 🫀; for God is not within Jerusalem, nor in your holy mount in any way that he is not in every heart. 🌏“(27) “Our God is Spirit; they who worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.”

[jk: historical geopolitical in/stability?]

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The Christine gate into the kingdom of the Holy One was opened up, and Jesus and the six disciples and Lamaas (🇮🇳) left the Jordan ford and turned their faces toward Galilee.
Their way lay through 📍 Samaria and they journeyed on they came to 📍 Sychar, which was near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to Joseph when a youth.
And Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus sat beside the well in silent thought 💭, and his disciples went into the town to purchase bread 🍞.
A woman of the town came out to fill her pitcher from the well 🚰; and Jesus was athirst, and when he asked the woman for a drink, she said:
“I am a woman of Samaria, and you a Jew; do you not know that there is enmity ⚔️ between Samaritans and Jews? They traffic not; then why ask me the favor of a drink?”
And Jesus said: “Samaritans and Jews are all the children of God, our Father-God, and they are kin 👥.”
“It is but prejudice born of the carnal mind 🧠 that breeds this enmity 😠 and hate.”
“While I was born 👶 a Jew I recognize the brotherhood of life. Samaritans are just as dear to me as Jew or Greek.”
“And then had you but known the blessings that our Father-God 🕊️ has sent to men by me, you would have asked me for a drink.”
“And I would gladly have given you a cup of water from the Fount of Life ⛲, and you would never thirst again.”
The woman said: “This well is deep, you have naught with which to draw; how could you get the water that you speak about?”
And Jesus said: “The water that I speak about comes not from Jacob’s well; it flows from springs that never fail.”
“Lo, every one who drink from Jacob’s well will thirst again 😓; but they who drink the water that I give will never thirst again ♾️;”
“For they themselves become a well 🌊, and from their inner parts the sparkling waters bubble 🫧 up into eternal life.”
The woman said: “Sir, I would drink from that rich well of life. Give me a drink, that I may thirst no more.”
And Jesus said: “Go call your husband from the town that he may share with you this living cup.”
The woman said: “I have no husband, sir.”
And Jesus answered her and said: “You scarcely know what husband means; you seem to be a gilded butterfly that flits from flower to flower.”