28 The woman then left her waterpot, went her way into the city, and said to the men, 29 "Come, see a Man who told me all things that I ever did. Could this be the Christ?" 30 Then they went out of the city and came to Him.
31 In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, "Rabbi, eat."
32 But He said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know."
33 Therefore the disciples said to one another, "Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?" John 4:28-33 (NKJV)
Comments:
Notice what the woman did after she learned the truth of who Jesus was and what He had to offer; she went and told others. She went back to the city that had rejected her, even to the men, and told them the good news about Christ. It would have been real easy for her to say, "those people don't deserve saving" or "I just want to stay here with Jesus and 'worship'". Instead she had developed the Christ-like characteristic of love for all men no matter what the sin and she could do nothing but go and tell.
After the woman left the disciples show back up, which in itself is a divine intervention. If the disciples would have shown up earlier they probably would have interrupted the conversation, so God set the timing perfectly to allow for the truth to be told to this woman.
The disciples then have the exact problem the woman had earlier, they are unable to view what Jesus was saying as a spiritual lesson instead of a simple remark concerning physical desire. How easy it is to slip back into the ways of the world when we get away from God.
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