Jesus began his conversation with the woman at the well by asking her for a drink of water. He has her attention because he is breaking all the social rules by talking to a Samaritan, much less a woman (John 4:9 ,27). When she asks him why he is speaking to her, he does not answer her question, but brings up an entirely different topic.
“If you knew the gift of God and who it is who says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water” (John 4:10).
Many people in America ask the same question the woman did. They put it this way. “Why do you Christians push your religion on other nations? Christianity is a European religion.” Not only does their question show their ignorance that Christianity is Jewish, but if they truly understood the gift Christ offers, culture and ethnicity would mean nothing to them.
If I was in prison and someone offered to set me free, I would not care where they came from.
