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[370 words] In John 4, Jesus makes the decision to go from Judea to Galilee (v.3). Samaria lay between the two. John 4:4 states, “But He needed to go through Samaria” (v.4). Most of us well know that the Jews and the Samaritans were bitter enemies. In fact, many Jews making the same trek Jesus was about to make would take a longer circuitous route just to avoid Samaritan soil. But Jesus needed to go through Samaria. Maybe He needed to go through there, not to save time, but for who He would encounter there. While in Samaria, He found Himself at Jacob’s well near the city of Sychar. There He met a Samaritan woman of likely ill repute and struck up a conversation with her about water, her life, and spiritual matters (v.5-26). When Jesus’ disciples came back (they had gone into town to get food), they marveled that…