The Samaritan woman, leaving her waterpot by the well, rushed to her village, urging the people, “Come, see a man who told me all things that ever I did. Can this be the Christ?” (Jn. 4:25).

The invitation of this woman, with perhaps Jesus’ supernatural revelation of the woman’s past life, coupled also with the question, “Can this be the Christ?” aroused the interest of the villagers and Jesus did not disappoint them. The Holy Spirit’s comment of these was, “And from that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman” (Jn. 4:29). Then, after Jesus spent two days teaching these people they exclaimed to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of thy speaking, for we have heard for ourselves and know that this indeed is the Savior come into the world” (Jn. 4:42).