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Podcast: West End UMC Podcast Audio Podcast
Episode: Jesus at the Well
Description: We are pausing reading the Bible beginning to end for Lent and a theme of Encounters with Jesus. In today’s scripture, Jesus, traveling through Samaria, finds himself sitting at a well, tired and famished in the middle of the day, when a Samaritan woman approaches the well. It is a familiar story, but there are aspects of it that merit exploration. Traditionally, this woman who had been married five times and is now with a man who is not married was thought to be a woman of ill repute. But the story does not say why she was married fi...