Playlist: Jacob's Well (topic)
Who Was the Samaritan Woman at the Well?
Sermon by Ted E. BowlingIn the journey through Samaria, Jesus Christ came to a city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. There, Jacob's well stood as a significant landmark. Jesus, wearied from His journey, sat by the well at about noon, the sixth hour. It was at this well that He initiated a profound conversation …
An Abundance of Living Water
Feast of Tabernacles Sermon by Richard T. RitenbaughJacob's well is a seep well, a deep hole dug in the ground into which water slowly seeps from the surrounding soil. It is not inexhaustible, because it does not tap a great aquifer directly. People lowered their buckets into it to draw out water that collected at the bottom out of mud, dirt, and sand. When Jesus sat by it at …
John (Part Eight)
Sermon/Bible Study by John W. RitenbaughJacob's Well provides the physical and symbolic setting for the encounter between Christ and the Samaritan woman in John 4, and its details carry significant theological weight throughout the passage. Located just outside Sychar, a town in the region anciently called Shechem, the well lies today more than 100 feet below ground, …