John 4:25-26 (WEL) The woman says to him, “I know that Messiah is coming, who is called Christ. When he comes, he will make all things known to us.” 26 Jesus says to her, “I AM he, the one speaking to you.”
V25 The woman says to him, “I know that Messiah is coming, who is called Christ. When he comes, he will make all things known to us.”
She didn’t know much, but she knew that the deliverer was coming. She also knew that the Messiah would know all things (omniscient).
(Day by Day by Grace for 2 March 2026): “Operating in Jesus, the Holy Spirit would also be to Him “the Spirit of counsel and might.” Jesus was truly the “Wonderful Counselor” (Isaiah 9:6). When counseling Nicodemus, the religious ruler (John 3:1-21), and the Samaritan woman at the well (John 4:7-42), He fully gave them what their hearts were seeking in the truths they needed to hear. Also, Jesus distinctly exhibited the might of God. Whether boldly speaking to calm the raging sea (Mark 4:35-41) or courageously remaining silent at His trial (Matthew 27:11-14), the mighty power of God was on majestic display.”
It is amazing to most people that a woman who has so many sins can be saved from the wrath of God. Jesus came to the area, sat at the well, saw her coming, spoke to her, taught her, invited her to believe in Him, the Messiah, and drink of eternal, spiritual water. No matter who you are or were, Jesus Christ came to seek that which was lost.
V26 Jesus says to her, “I AM he, the one speaking to you.”
This is the most clear statement from Jesus Himself that He is the Messiah. He did not speak this clearly to any Jew, any Sadducee, Pharisee, Roman, or anyone else.
Comments:
This is long but well worth it:
M. R. Vincent’s Word Pictures on John 4:26:
“This incident furnishes a notable illustration of our Lord’s love for human souls, and of His skill, tact, and firmness in dealing with moral degradation and ignorant bigotry. He conciliates the woman by asking a favor. Her hesitation arises less from prejudice of race than from surprise at being asked for drink by a Jew (compare the story of Zacchaeus). He seizes upon a near and familiar object as the key-note of His great lesson. He does not overwhelm her with new knowledge, but stimulates question and thought. He treats her sin frankly, but not harshly. He is content with letting her see that He is aware of it, knowing that through Him, as the Discerner, she will by and by reach Him as the Forgiver. Even from her ignorance and coarse superstition He does not withhold the sublimest truth. He knows her imperfect understanding, but He assumes the germinative power of the truth itself. He is not deterred from the effort to plant His truth and to rescue a soul, either by His own weariness or by the conventional sentiment which frowned upon His conversation with a woman in a public place. Godet contrasts Jesus’ method in this case with that employed in the interview with Nicodemus. “With Nicodemus He started from the idea which filled every Pharisee’s heart, that of the kingdom of God, and deduced therefrom the most rigorous practical consequences. He knew that He had to do with a man accustomed to the discipline of the law. Then He unveiled to him the most elevated truths of the kingdom of heaven, by connecting them with a striking Old Testament type, and contrasting them with the corresponding features of the Pharisaic program. Here, on the contrary, with a woman destitute of all scriptural training, He takes His point of departure from the commonest thing imaginable, the water of the well. He suddenly exalts it, by a bold antithesis, to the idea of that eternal life which quenches forever the thirst of the human heart. Spiritual aspiration thus awakened in her becomes the internal prophecy to which He attaches His new revelations, and thus reaches that teaching on true worship which corresponds as directly to the peculiar prepossessions of the woman, as the revelation of heavenly things corresponded to the inmost thoughts of Nicodemus. Before the latter He unveils Himself as the only-begotten Son, but this while avoiding the title of “Christ.” With the woman He boldly uses this term; but He does not dream of initiating into the mysteries of incarnation and redemption a soul which is yet only at the first elements of religious life and knowledge.” (“Commentary on the Gospel of John”).”
We learn:
- How Jesus interacts with different individuals.
- His desire for all to be saved.
Questions:
- How do you witness your Christian faith to others?
- How was the Gospel presented to you?