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The exact phrasing is, “He needed to go to Samaria.”
Jesus made a decision to pass through Samaria instead of being a good little Jewish boy and going around that province which was known for its heresy and wickedness.
I think I now realize why he did it.
He had a meeting at a well in Sychar. In that one encounter, he succeeded in passing on, for all time and to all generations, his heart on gender equality, judging morality and racial bigotry.
Let’s look at the story.
Having sent his disciples away to get food, he strikes up a conversation with a woman from Samaria. This means very little to us in our day and age, but in the season that Jesus of Nazareth lived on the earth, men and women did not talk. They just copulated.
She was surprised.
She was suspicious.
Honestly, considering her background, she probably thought he was trying to make a pass at her.
He wasn’t.
He talked to her. His conversation with this woman in Sychar was no different in its intensity and intelligence from the conversation he had with Nicodemus, a learned male Pharisee.
Jesus was telling us the following:
Men and women are equals and the more they act like humans, the better they’ll get along with each other.
Secondly, in the midst of the conversation, he asked the woman to go get her husband. She replied, “I have no husband.”
Jesus replied, “You have spoken well, for you’ve had five husbands and the man you’re living with now is not your husband.”
Though she was not totally forthcoming with Jesus about her status, she didn’t lie. He thanked her for telling him as much of the truth as she was able to put forth.
He made no moral judgment on her.
He did not condemn her for having multiple marriages nor insist that she was living in sin.
He established for all time, “I will welcome anyone who’s honest about their sexuality and their situation without offering condemnation.”
And finally, when the disciples showed up and saw him talking to a woman who was of a different belief and race, they were upset–in that “religious folk way.”
You know what I mean? They started whispering among themselves.
Jesus got the disciples out of there so he could establish what he really felt about bigotry, that being:
“I will ignore and fight against racism even if it makes people uncomfortable or my friends disagree.”
In one meeting, Jesus handled three of the largest issues of our time:
- Gender equality
- Human sexuality
- And racism.
And I think if you read it very carefully in the Good Book in John the 4th Chapter, you will understand that to Jesus, women are humans, people shouldn’t be judged by their moral choices and racism is evil.
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