The Woman at the Well (John 4)
1. One day, Jesus was sitting by a well. He was tired and thirsty. But he had nothing to draw water with. (Draw the stick figure of Jesus kneeling with his arms out as seen in step 1.)
2. In those days, when you went to a well, it did not have a bucket with a rope attached to it for you to crank down and get water. You had to take your own vessel to draw water. . . and Jesus had none. So he couldn’t get a drink because the hole in the well was very deep. (Draw the well and darken in the hole as you talk about how deep it was.)
3. The disciples had gone ahead of Jesus to get food in the city. . . so Jesus was alone. After some time, a Samaritan woman came to the well to draw water. In her hands she had a vessel (draw the woman with a circle as a vessel in her hands) to draw water with. Jesus asked the woman for a drink.
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step 1: Jesus kneeling |
step 2: add the well |
step 3: add the woman and her vessel |
4. The woman was amazed that he would ask her for water. She said, "How is it that you a Jew, ask me, a Samaritan woman for a drink?" Because Jews didn’t associate with Samaritans. They wouldn’t even look at a Samaritan, much less talk to a Samaritan woman! Jesus said, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it was that was talking to you, you would ask him and he would give you living water." He was saying he had water to give to her. (Draw a vessel in Jesus’ hands.)
5. She said, "How is it that you can do this? Are you greater than our father Jacob who dug this well and drank from it himself?" (Draw two lines on the well.)
step 4: draw Jesus’ vessel
step 5: draw lines on well
6. Jesus said, "Whoever drinks this water (point to the well) will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give (point to his vessel) will never be thirsty again!" The woman said, "Sir, give me this water so I don’t have to keep coming to this well to get water." Jesus said, "Go, get your husband and come back." She said, "I don’t have a husband." Jesus said, "You’re right in saying that you don’t have a husband. The fact is that you have had five husbands and the man you are now with is not your husband." The woman was amazed that he knew everything about her…but had never met her before. She said, "I can see that you’re a prophet. Well, you Jews say that you have to worship in Jerusalem at the temple." (Draw the temple and write the word "temple" underlining it several times.)
7. "But, we Samaritans, say that you should worship, not in Jerusalem at the temple, but up (draw an up arrow) on this mountain." (Draw the mountains.)
step 6: add the temple
step 7: add the arrow and mountains
8. Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, a time is coming and is now here where true worshipers will neither worship on this mountain (draw a line across the mountain at a diagonal) nor in Jerusalem at the temple. (Scratch out the temple all the way across the words and the dome…making lines down to the side of Jesus’ head and the woman’s head.) But true worshipers will worship in spirit and in truth."
9. The woman said, "I know that the Messiah is coming, and when he comes, he will explain everything to us." Jesus turned to her and said, (as you say this, turn the picture upside-down to reveal Jesus with his arms open wide) "I who speak to you today am He!" She was so excited that she left her water vessel at the well and went and told everyone in her town! They came out to meet Jesus and many were saved. After two days with Jesus, they told the woman at the well. We no longer believe in Jesus because of what you told us, but because we have heard him ourselves and we know that He IS THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD!
step 8: add mountain lines and scratch temple
step 9: turn over your drawing
Copyright © 2001 Nathan Dorrell
(each story has a final page devoted just to the final picture for tracing...for use on an overhead, etc.)
