Character Needed - Bible Sketches 24

CHARACTER NEEDED – BIBLE SKETCHES

Character Needed, by Robert Allen, published by Regular Baptist Press, includes 33 skits illustrating the truths of each of the verses in Proverbs 15.  These Character Needed – Bible Sketches are designed to accompany those contemporary plays, illustrating the same character traits by use of a Bible story. 

CHARACTER NEEDED

  

JUST A CUP OF WATER

Proverbs 15:24

John 4:6-26

Character Trait: Concern

Cast of Characters

                        Narrator

                        John

                        Jesus

                        Peter

                        Samaritan Woman

NARRATOR:             Jesus was tired.  He had stayed up late into the night talking with Nicodemas.  He had been preaching during the days and traveling with His disciples.  Right now they were on their way from Judea up to Galilee, and it was a long walk.  So when they came to the city of Sychar, in Samaria, Jesus was ready for a rest.  He sat down beside the well.

JOHN:                         We’ll go get something to eat, Jesus.

JESUS:                        That would be fine.

PETER:                       I’m sure we can buy something over in the city.

JESUS:                        Certainly, go right ahead.

NARRATOR:             So the disciples went over to the city of Sychar to buy some meat.  While they were gone, a woman came to the well to draw water.  Jesus wanted to talk to her about her need of salvation, so he began a conversation with her.

JESUS:                        Give me a drink, please.

SAMARITAN:           But sir, you are a Jew.  How can you ask me for a drink?  I am a woman of Samaria.  The Jews don’t have anything to do with the Samaritans.  Your people haven’t had any dealings with us since just after the captivity.  Did I really hear you right?

NARRATOR:             Jesus had accomplished just what he wanted to do by asking for a drink.  He had aroused her interest.  Now he started to change the conversation from talking about water to talking about salvation.

JESUS:                        If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that said to you, “Give me to drink,” you would have asked of Him, and He would have given you living water.

NARRATOR:             The woman looked closer and saw that Jesus didn’t have a bucket of any kind.

SAMARITAN:           But sir, the well is deep and you don’t have anything to draw water with.  How can you speak of living water?  Are you greater than our father Jacob?  He dug this well and drank from it himself.  Do you have a better well?

JESUS:                        Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again.  But whoever drinks of the water that I give shall never thirst.  The water that I give will become inside of him a well springing up to everlasting life.

SAMARITAN:           Give me some of you water.  I get tired of coming out here to draw water.  If I had your water I would never get thirsty again and I wouldn’t have to come back to this well.

JESUS:                        Call your husband and come back again.

NARRATOR:             That seemed like a strange thing for Jesus to say.  But he knew that the woman had been married five times and was now living with a man who wasn’t her husband.  He wanted her to realize she was a sinner in need of a Savior.  He was still leading the woman to salvation, and it wasn’t long until she began to ask about the Messiah who had been promised in the Old Testament.  When she did that, Jesus revealed Himself to her.

JESUS:                        I that speak unto thee am He.

NARRATOR:             When the woman heard that He was the Messiah she was so excited that she went back into the city and began to tell everyone she met about Christ.  Many of them followed her back out to the well to hear Christ speak.  And many of them came to believe on Him just as she had believed.  When the disciples returned they were amazed that all of those things had happened just because Jesus had asked for a cup of water.