Sunday 19th April 2026
Read: 2 Kings 17:6,22–29; John 4:1–42
Sermon: John 4:1–42
1. Introduction
2. The new setting – a different national history
3. An in depth conversation –
(a) nationality clash
(b) Jesus’s two “if you only knew” points
(c) The woman asking the right question
(d) Jesus’s water of eternal life metaphor
(e) Jesus reveals his knowledge (like with Nathaniel) and tells her “all things”
(f) the woman introduces the subject of the Messiah/Christ
(g) Jesus’s direct and clear self-disclosure
4. Lessons for the disciples
5. The Samaritans’ response to Jesus’s words and the woman’s testimony
6. Worship