We're Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

About this episode

The episode discusses the encounter between Jesus and the Samaritan woman, highlighting her search for love and the fulfillment she finds in Jesus.

In today's Gospel Jesus encounters a Samaritan woman at Jacob's well. The woman's need to visit the well every day is a symbol of her fundamental thirst for love (which is also evidenced in her having had five previous husbands and a current live-in boyfriend -- she is looking for love in all the wrong places)! But, after encountering Jesus, she goes back to town and leaves her water jug at the well, a symbol of her thirst having been quenched. She won't need to keep returning to the water that does not satisfy (nor to the men who did not satisfy). She has found the living water! And the One for whom she has always been searching.

Topics covered

• love
• faith
• spiritual thirst
• Gospel
• Jesus
• Samaritan woman

Keywords

• thirst
• living water
• Jacob's well
• satisfaction

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Gospel

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