John 4:9

John 4:9 says, Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. The woman at the well had a question for Jesus.  She asked Jesus how it was that He being a Jew, asked her, a woman of Samaria for a drink, since the Jews had no dealings with the Samaritans. When she looked at Christ, she simply saw a Jewish man.  When we first encounter Christ, we may wonder why He is even talking to us.  Now, we won't encounter Him physically, but He will make Himself known to us, and we have to wonder why He cares about sinners. We cannot bridge the gap to God, so He did.  Verse ten adds, Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water.  Jesus said that if she knew the gift of God, she could have asked, and He would have given thee living water.  When we first encounter Jesus, we may not understand Who He is.  We may question what He wants from us.  He is here to offer us living water, and we are still looking through worldly eyes at first.  We, like the woman at the well, may ask how Jesus can give us something better than the world has to offer.  Verse eleven continues, The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water?  Verse twelve concludes, Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle?  In verses eleven and twelve, she pointed out that He had no bucket, and the well was deep and had been given to them by Jacob.  Was Jesus claiming to be better than Jacob?  We often fail to do the will of God because we have no bucket.  We limit God to what we can see instead of what He has promised.  We can also limit Him because of what Christians did in the past.  Jacob was a great man, but he was simply a man.  The woman questioned Jesus because she didn't know Who He really was.  The question is why do we question Him when we, as His followers, know Who He is?