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00:00Brothers, we had stayed to reflect on the topic of water in this meeting with
00:29the Samaritan woman. But next, and pay close attention, we'll see a change of subject in
00:35The conversation was very interesting. Surely the expansion of the water comes from the believer.
00:43He has to touch others, his neighbor. The Samaritan woman asks Jesus to always
00:51Give him that water so he doesn't have to come back here to the well. Jesus at this moment
00:58In verse 16, he tells her, "Go, call your husband, and come back here." As if inviting her.
01:05to be willing to share the divine gift with others. To which she responds in
01:11Verse 17, I have no husband. Jesus clearly already knew this and confirms that she
01:21She told the truth. You've had five husbands and now you're living with a man who isn't your husband, Jesus tells her.
01:29In this dialogue. This woman has gone from breakup to breakup, from affair to affair. This woman has been
01:42wounded in their capacity to love and to establish true relationships. Perhaps this is the reason
01:50that the woman comes to the well at midday. John said at the beginning in verse 6 when describing us
01:56The scene. It was around the sixth hour, or noon, depending on the translation. Why? Well
02:05because she wants to avoid being seen by the other women in the village and avoid being judged, that they
02:12They criticize her, they make fun of her, and they even gossip about her. We can imagine the scene. Did you see it?
02:19There she is. Yesterday she was with someone else. And that's why the woman hides by going to the well around noon.
02:28When it's hotter. Then, when no one goes to the well so she can go alone. And then,
02:38From here, the conversation will turn to another topic: true worship. The woman,
02:47Seeing that Jesus knows her past, she says to him, “I see that you are a prophet.” Verse 19. And she shares with him
02:56a question that he had surely been harboring for a long time and that was surely
03:02the questioning of her people. Surely she had already raised this questioning herself.
03:09Several people from his town, several authorities. What does he share with them in verse 20? Our
03:18Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where we should
03:24Worship is in Jerusalem. Faced with this question, Jesus will answer regarding the matter of his arrival.
03:32of the hour of the true worshippers of the Father. But we ask ourselves, why this change?
03:40What's the topic? Why this shift in the conversation of the five husbands? And now
03:46Let's talk about worship. One might say, well, don't change the subject. We're talking
03:51about you. We're talking about your problems. Especially since Jesus wanted to listen to her.
03:57Well, in order to heal her. We could respond to this difficulty, this change of conversation,
04:06This change of subject, in various ways. We can even further suppose that the Samaritan woman
04:14She's been widowed five times and is now simply looking for a sexual marriage. Okay.
04:20But some exegetes have wanted to see, from a symbolic point of view, the theme of the
04:26five husbands. Some say the woman represents Samaria, populated by five foreign tribes,
04:35Each woman with her own God. The one who is not her husband represents either a false God or the false one.
04:43the worship that the Samaritans offered to the true God. Barrett says this in his commentary.
04:50from the Gospel of John. But some say that the Samaritans didn't have five, but
04:58seven gods. This is seen in the second book of Kings, in chapter 17, which you will be able to
05:06Go read. Other exegetes have suggested that the five husbands are the five books of the
05:13The Torah, which the Samaritans followed at one point in their history, but there was a time
05:20of rupture where they were abandoned. And for this reason we could understand that the Jews don't get along.
05:27with the Samaritans. Other commentators on the Gospel have seen that the number six, five
05:36husbands, but a sixth man who is not a husband, these six, well, he is the symbol of
05:43Imperfection. Since we know, biblically, that the number seven is the perfect number, the number
05:50of God. Going through five husbands, cohabiting with a sixth man, implies waiting for the arrival
05:58of the seventh, perfect, and definitive husband. And in this sense, it can be assumed that Christ
06:07He is the seventh husband of this Samaritan woman, this wounded woman. He is the final husband.
06:17He is the husband who comes to heal her of all her infidelities, wounds, sins, and broken hearts.
06:26A wounded woman, but one who is now being rescued and rebuilt. This type, these various
06:36I leave the symbolic interpretations of the five husbands to your consideration. All of this...
06:43It remains implicit; there is no definitive, conclusive opinion. But what is very clear, and this
06:53Yes, it is biblical, since it is in the text; it is manifestly John's intention in showing
07:01the context of the meeting place, a water well, a water source, what is in the intention
07:09From John? Because in the context of the Old Testament, water wells or springs
07:16These were places of nuptial encounters. The first is that of Abraham's servant seeking a wife.
07:25for his son Isaac, in Genesis 24, verse 10 and following. Also Jacob, the patriarch,
07:34He falls in love at first sight when he finds Rachel. Where? At a well. In Genesis 29.
07:41From the 1st to the 11th, you will be able to go and see these two venues, these meetings of the patriarchs
07:49with the women they loved in a place where there is water, at a well, at a fountain
07:55of water, nuptial encounter. So John wanted to show this encounter of Jesus with
08:03The Samaritan woman, from a wedding perspective, because of where we are. Jesus wants to unite.
08:12to her. And the most interesting thing is that Jesus wants to unite with her by becoming dependent on her.
08:20relating to her. That is why St. Augustine says, regarding this text from the Gospel, who
08:29He was prevented from drinking; he thirsted for the faith of that same woman. This text of the encounter between
08:38Jesus and the Samaritan Woman is so beautiful, it has such a great teaching, that even the
08:43The Catechism of the Catholic Church, regarding prayer, will briefly comment on this
08:51This text will be used to teach us the mystery of prayer. This is in the numbers
08:572560 and 2561, where we read, if you knew the gift of God, the wonder of prayer
09:06He is revealed precisely there, by the well where we go to draw our water. There Christ
09:13He goes to meet every human being. He is the first to seek us out and the one who asks us for a drink. Jesus
09:20He is thirsty. His plea comes from the depths of God who desires us. Let us remember that prayer...
09:28Or not, it is the encounter of God's thirst and man's thirst. God thirsts for the
09:35man thirsts for Him. You would have begged Him and He would have given you living water. Our
09:43A prayer of petition is, paradoxically, a response. A response to God's complaint.
09:50I live. They left me a spring of living water to build cisterns, cracked cisterns.
09:57A response of faith to the free promise of salvation. A response of love to the Son's thirst.
10:03Unique. Let us read this passage from the Samaritan woman, listening to the voice of Jesus, listening to his desire
10:13to drink. Prayer is this encounter with my small thirst, the thirst where, filled with
10:23Things that don't hydrate, with things, with drinks that don't truly quench my thirst, with the
10:31A great thirst for God in my heart. That's why we understand this Samaritan woman who has gone through five
10:38husbands. Why? Because she thirsted for love, longed to be loved. But the
10:47Humans have not quenched this thirst, they have not fully satisfied the woman's desire to be loved.
10:55Only Jesus, the true and definitive bridegroom, will come to quench her thirst. As the catechism says,
11:04Our prayer, prayer is the place where God's thirst meets our thirst.
11:10Let us read this chapter 4, this encounter of Jesus with the Samaritan woman, in this light, and let us live it out in our lives.
11:18Let us identify with the Samaritan woman, whom Jesus helped, in all our spiritual emptiness.
11:25It will fill him up by giving him the living water.
11:48Thanks for watching the video.