(a) Jesus met the Samaritan woman by the well and asked her to give him water to drink. She wondered how a Jew could ask her, a Samaritan, for a drink. Jesus told her that it was a pity that she did not know the person that was asking her for a drink. He said, if she had known, she would have asked him for living water. The Samaritan wondered how he could provide water without a vessel to get the water from such a deep well.
She said she was sure, he could not be greater than Jacob, the great grand father of the Israelites who gave them the well which Jacob himself and all descendants and their animals drank from. Jesus said emphatically that whoever drank of the water that he would give would never thirst again, for the water he would give would become a spring of water to eternal life. The woman ask Jesus to give her the water so that she might not thirst nor come to the well to draw water again.

(b)The lesson that be derived from the Samaritan woman's encounter with Jesus are:
(i) In Jesus, there is no discrimination.
(ii) Christian supercedes Judaism.
(iii) Jesus has come to give eternal life and men should desire it.
(iv) In our encounter with others we should be patient and listen to them.