Most Christians have heard the story of the Samaritan woman at the well, found in John 4, but what if the Samaritan woman gets a reputation undeserved? How often have we heard she was an adulteress, or that she ran through husbands in sin? What if, assumptions we have made, looking at a Middle Eastern first century world with our Western twenty-first century eyes, have put shame on a woman that Jesus was trying to lift out of it? Join co hosts Annalise and Danielle as they dig into this story, and uncover truths about the Jesus that make him more beautiful and wonderful than ever before.
Quote by Dorothy L. Sayers: “Perhaps it is no wonder that the women were first at the Cradle and last at the Cross. They had never known a man like this Man - there never has been such another. A prophet and teacher who never nagged at them, never flattered or coaxed or patronised; who never made arch jokes about them, never treated them either as "The women, God help us!" or "The ladies, God bless them!"; who rebuked without querulousness and praised without condescension; who took their questions and arguments seriously; who never mapped out their sphere for them, never urged them to be feminine or jeered at them for being female; who had no axe to grind and no uneasy male dignity to defend; who took them as he found them and was completely unself-conscious. There is no act, no sermon, no parable in the whole Gospel that borrows its pungency from female perversity; nobody could possibly guess from the words and deeds of Jesus that there was anything "funny" about woman's nature.”
Jesus and Women in the First Century Study by Kristi McLelland
