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Give Me Water

John 4:6-8
"6 Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with His journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.
7 There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give Me to drink.
8 (For His disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.)"

Our THIRST for God makes us study the Holy Scriptures. Like the DEER seeking the refreshing waters of a stream. The Apostle Paul is wrote in First Corenthians chapter ten of the time the Israelites escaped slavery in Egypt and wandered through the wilderness. "They drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ."

Today we turn to the Gospel of John for another LINK between the Old Testament and New Testament. Jacob was the son of Issac who's life was symbolically one long wrestling match with everyone. In the end he wrestles God and gets the new name Israel. It's Isreal's twelve sons that grow into the twelve tribes of Israel! 

The Holy Bible says Jacob bought land from Shechem and lived at that place for a long time in Genesis chapter thirty-three, verse nineteen. On this location Jacob provided his children with physical water in an arid land. That well was still in use about seventeen hundred years later in Jesus's day! In today's verses; "Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with His journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour. There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw WATER: Jesus saith unto her, Give Me to drink."

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