Celebrated WT Scholars: Will you answer these questions?
While reading the account of Jesus and the Samaritan woman at Jacob's fountain a few questions arose that, in all sincerity I don't believe the WT scholars can answer without bringing some of their core doctrines into question:
1.) Why was it necessary for Jesus to go through Samaria?
2.) What is the water that Jesus gives and what does it mean for it to "become in him a fountain of water bubbling up to impart everlasting life"?
3.) How did Jesus know intimate details about this woman who He had never met before?
4.) Why were the men of her village so anxious to see Jesus?
John 4:4-30
4 When, now, the Lord became aware that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John— 2 although, indeed, Jesus himself did no baptizing but his disciples did— 3 he left Ju·de'a and departed again for Gal'i·lee. 4 But it was necessary for him to go through Sa·mar'i·a. 5 Accordingly he came to a city of Sa·mar'i·a called Sy'char near the field that Jacob gave to Joseph his son. 6 In fact, Jacob’s fountain was there. Now Jesus, tired out from the journey, was sitting at the fountain just as he was. The hour was about the sixth.
7 A woman of Sa·mar'i·a came to draw water. Jesus said to her: “Give me a drink.” 8 (For his disciples had gone off into the city to buy foodstuffs.) 9 Therefore the Sa·mar'i·tan woman said to him: “How is it that you, despite being a Jew, ask me for a drink, when I am a Sa·mar'i·tan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Sa·mar'i·tans.) 10 In answer Jesus said to her: “If you had known the free gift of God and who it is that says to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11 She said to him: “Sir, you have not even a bucket for drawing water, and the well is deep. From what source, therefore, do you have this living water? 12 You are not greater than our forefather Jacob, who gave us the well and who himself together with his sons and his cattle drank out of it, are you?” 13 In answer Jesus said to her: “Everyone drinking from this water will get thirsty again. 14 Whoever drinks from the water that I will give him will never get thirsty at all, but the water that I will give him will become in him a fountain of water bubbling up to impart everlasting life.” 15 The woman said to him: “Sir, give me this water, so that I may neither thirst nor keep coming over to this place to draw water.”
16 He said to her: “Go, call your husband and come to this place.” 17 In answer the woman said: “I do not have a husband.” Jesus said to her: “You said well, ‘A husband I do not have.’ 18 For you have had five husbands, and the [man] you now have is not your husband. This you have said truthfully.” 19 The woman said to him: “Sir, I perceive you are a prophet. 20 Our forefathers worshiped in this mountain; but YOU people say that in Jerusalem is the place where persons ought to worship.” 21 Jesus said to her: “Believe me, woman, The hour is coming when neither in this mountain nor in Jerusalem will YOU people worship the Father. 22 YOU worship what YOU do not know; we worship what we know, because salvation originates with the Jews. 23 Nevertheless, the hour is coming, and it is now, when the true worshipers will worship the Father with spirit and truth, for, indeed, the Father is looking for suchlike ones to worship him. 24 God is a Spirit, and those worshiping him must worship with spirit and truth.” 25 The woman said to him: “I know that Mes·si'ah is coming, who is called Christ. Whenever that one arrives, he will declare all things to us openly.” 26 Jesus said to her: “I who am speaking to you am he.”
27 Now at this point his disciples arrived, and they began to wonder because he was speaking with a woman. Of course, no one said: “What are you looking for?” or, “Why do you talk with her?” 28 The woman, therefore, left her water jar and went off into the city and told the men: 29 “Come here, see a man that told me all the things I did. This is not perhaps the Christ, is it?” 30 They went out of the city and began coming to him.
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