4:11,12
The woman thinks that Jesus is talking about natural water, and points out the impossibility of Jesus giving her any natural water. He doesn’t have a bucket, and the well was about 100 feet deep. Then she gets all theological. “Are you greater than our father Jacob?” The answer, of course, is yes, infinitely greater! Jacob is mentioned because tradition had it that he is the one who dug the well in the first place. At this point she has no idea at all who Jesus is, thinking he is a charlatan or mad.
4:13,14
Jesus continues to lead her out of her current thinking to kingdom thinking. First of all there is the statement that anyone who drinks of the natural water will be thirsty again. Now this is obviously true, but there are many things that are obviously true that we either do not appreciate, or sometimes even go directly against. In Matt 6 Jesus says that worrying never does any good. We all know that to be the case, but all still waste a lot of time worrying. Jesus is offering to supply her with something much greater, “water” that will permanently satisfy. Indeed, this water will become “in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life”. Jesus came not to just make things a little better, but to bring about radical change. He was seeking to bring about radical change in the life of the woman.
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