008. The Lord Jesus Forgives a Wayward Samaritan Lady

Peter

I am Peter, and my feet are aching. Jesus sets a fast pace!
We are traveling near Sychar in Samaria.
Hey, fellows, let’s go buy some bread.

Prompter & Echoes

We are all hungry!

Voice

You men go. I will stay here at the well and rest.

Peter

Come, guys. (Walk to one side)

Lady

  (Walk toward Voice, pretending to hold a water pot on your head.)

Voice

Ma’am, please give me a drink.

Lady

Well, now! How is it that you, a Jew, ask me for a drink?
You snobbish Jews do not have any dealings with us Samaritans.

Voice

If you knew the gift of God,
and who it is that asked for a drink,
you would have asked him,
and he would have given you living water.

Lady

Sir, you have nothing to draw with and the well is deep.
So where will you get that ‘living’ water?
Are you greater than our father Jacob?
He dug this well, and his sons and cattle drank from it.

Voice

Everyone who drinks this water will thirst again,
but whoever drinks of the water that I give shall never thirst.
It will become in him a well of living water springing up,
giving eternal life.

Prompter & Echoes

Living water!

Lady

Sir, give this water to me, so I will not thirst
and have to come all this way to draw from this well.

Voice

Go, call your husband and come back.

Lady

I have no husband.

Voice

Correct. You have had five husbands,
and the one you are with now is not yours.

Lady

Oh! I see that you are a prophet!

Prompter & Echoes

A prophet!

Lady

Our fathers worshiped in this mountain,
but you Jews worship only in Jerusalem.

Voice

Lady, an hour is coming when you will worship the Father
neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem.
Soon true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth;
for such people the Father seeks to worship him.
God is spirit, and those who worship him
must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Lady

I know that Messiah is coming.
He will declare all things to us.

Voice

He who is speaking to you is he.

Lady

Oooh!

Prompter & Echoes

Christ the Messiah!

Peter

Look fellows. Amazing!
Jesus is talking with that Samaritan woman.
I wonder why. Oh! She left her water pot!
She’s hurrying into the city.

Lady

Neighbors! Come see a man who told me the things I have done!
He must be the Messiah!

Prompter & Echoes

Let’s go see him!

Peter

Rabbi, we brought you this food. Eat.
(Pretend to hold out food to him)

Voice

I have food to eat that you do not know about.

Peter

Hey, fellows, no one brought him anything to eat.
What does he mean?

Voice

My food is to do the will of him who sent me,
and to do his work.
Do not say, “In four months the harvest will come.”
Look, I tell you, lift up your eyes and see the fields,
white and ready to reap.

Peter

He means those Samaritans that are rushing toward us,
but they are our enemies! Oh! Now Jesus is talking with them.
He is friendly with them! Amazing!

Lady

They tell me they no longer believe
only because of what I said;
 they have heard for themselves.
Now they know that this man is the Savior of the world.

Prompter & Echoes

He gives the water of life!