Immediate Word

For the Third Sunday in Lent, February 27, the gospel is John 4:5-42. In this story of Jesus' encounter with the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well there are the two levels of meaning that are so often found in the Fourth Gospel. The woman would be satisfied with an guaranteed supply of plain old H2O, but the water Jesus has spoken about to her is something different. You can satisfy your thirst with ordinary water but eventually you'll be thirsty again. Jesus says that the person who drinks of his water will never thirst again.