'We know that this is truly the Saviour of the world.’ Sunday Reflections, 3rd Sunday of Lent, Year A
Christ and the Samaritan Woman at the Well Johann Zick [ Web Gallery of Art ] Readings (New American Bible: Philippines, USA) Readings (Jerusalem Bible: Australia, England & Wales, India [optional], Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, Scotland, South Africa) For the shorter form of the Gospel omit the passages [in square brackets] . Gospel John 4:5-42 [4:5-15, 19b-26, 39a, 40-42] ( New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition, Canada) Jesus came to a Samaritan city called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob’s well was there, and Jesus, tired out by his journey, was sitting by the well. It was about noon. A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus said to her, ‘Give me a drink’. (His disciples had gone to the city to buy food.) The Samaritan woman said to him, ‘How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?’ (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) Jesus a