Jesus and the Woman at the Well

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This Bible story podcast for kids tells the story of Jesus and the Woman at the Well. We referenced the following Biblical passages: John 4:4-42. Hey-O Kids Curriculum’s primary goal with the Stories of the Bible is to tell the stories from God’s word accurately and in a way that is engaging to children of all ages.

This is Jesus. Who is the Son of God and the Savior of the World. While Jesus was on earth, he taught everyone about God’s love, he healed many people from their sickness, performed many miracles like calming storms, and even raised people from the dead.

One day, Jesus was on his way to Galilee and had to pass through Samaria.  Jesus came to a Samaritan village and stopped at a well to rest. His disciples went to the village to buy some food, so Jesus was alone. At about noon, a Samaritan woman came to the well to get water. Jesus said to her, “Please give me a drink.”

The woman was surprised because Jesus was a Jew and Jews refused to have anything to do with Samaritans. She said, “You are a Jew, and I am a Samaritan woman. Why are you asking me for a drink?”

Jesus replied, “If you only knew the gift God has for you and who you are speaking to, you would ask me, and I would give you living water.”

The woman was confused and asked where Jesus would get water like that when he didn’t even have a bucket to pull water from the well. Jesus said to her, “Those who drink the water I give will never be thirsty again. It becomes a fresh, bubbling spring within them, giving them eternal life.”

The woman asked Jesus for this water so she would never be thirsty again. Jesus then showed the woman that he knew things about her that she never told him, and the woman said, “You must be a prophet!” Then she asked Jesus why Samaritans worshipped in one place while Jews worshipped in another place. 

Jesus told her that there would be a time coming when it wouldn’t matter where people worshipped. He said, “The time is coming—indeed it’s here now—when true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth. The Father is looking for those who will worship him that way.”

The woman said, “I know the Messiah is coming—the one who is called Christ. When he comes, he will explain everything to us.”

Jesus told her, “I am the Messiah!”

Just then Jesus’ disciples came back. They were shocked to find him talking to a woman, but they were too nervous to ask him why. The woman ran back to the village and told everyone to come see Jesus. 

She said, “He told me everything I ever did! Could he possibly be the Messiah?” Many Samaritans from the village believed in Jesus because of what the woman had said.

When they came out to see him, they begged him to stay. So he stayed for two days and many more heard what he had to say and believed in him. Then they said to the woman, “Now we believe, not just because of what you told us, but because we have heard him ourselves. Now we know that he is indeed the Savior of the world.”

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