A rabbi alone at a well with a woman who has had five husbands. Flirting? No. Isaac, Jacob and Moses all found their brides at a well, and in John 4 Jesus sits down at Jacob's well at high noon. Plus Nicholas Cavazos on the Amoris Laetetia Summit.

Abraham's servant found Rebekah for Isaac at a well. Jacob met Rachel at a well, rolled the stone away and watered her flock. Moses met Zipporah at a well in Midian. So when Jesus meets the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well and the conversation turns to husbands, every Jew who heard the story knew what kind of scene it was. Joe walks through the whole pattern: why she came alone at noon, what the five husbands meant for a people who served five foreign "lords," why Jesus told her plainly, "I am he," why she left her water jar, and how the living water at Jacob's well becomes the river of life in the Apocalypse.

In the first hour, Nicholas Cavazos joins Joe for his standing Thursday segment to discuss concerning developments coming out of the Amoeris Laetetia Summit.

FREE CHEAT SHEET — The Woman at the Well: Flirting or Fulfillment? Seven printable pages: the brides at the well side by side, the husbands, and the living water. https://joemcclane.com/woman-at-the-well

SCRIPTURE (Douay-Rheims)

• John 4:6 — "Jesus therefore being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well. It was about the sixth hour."
• John 4:10 — "He would have given thee living water."
• John 4:18 — "For thou hast had five husbands: and he whom thou now hast, is not thy husband
• John 4:26 — "I am he, who am speaking with thee."
• John 3:29 — "He that hath the bride, is the bridegroom."
• Osee 2:16 — "She shall call me: My husband, and she shall call me no more Baali."
• Apocalypse 22:17 — "And he that thirsteth, let him come: and he that will, let him take the water of life, freely."

FURTHER READING:

• Genesis 24; Genesis 29:1–12; Exodus 2:15–21 — the brides at the well
• 4 Kings (2 Kings) 17:24–33 — the five nations settled in Samar
• Ignatius Catholic Study Bible, note on John 4
• St. Augustine, Tractates on the Gospel of John, 15
• Watch Joe teach it — Catholic Bible Study on Salvation History: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTtJO_M7zBw7KLNIbhG7L2EVoI9al4fGH

NICHOLAS CAVAZOS:
https://www.youtube.com/@thetraditionalthomist

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