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THE WOMAN AT THE WELL
Jesus met a woman as she approached a well in Samaria, and He opened a conversation by asking her for a drink. Then He said to her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water” (John 4:10). But she knew neither the gift nor the speaker, so Jesus proceeded.
He knew she needed eternal life, and He introduced her to that need. This was not unusual for the Lord. We read in the previous chapter, John 3, that while Nicodemus felt no need to be born again, Jesus knew his need. The needs people have are not always the needs they feel, and what Jesus offers is not a feeling of satisfaction for a felt need but genuine satisfaction for a real need.
