Third Sunday in Lent; 12 March 2023; Lent 3A (RCL); Exodus 15:1-7; Psalm 95; Romans 5:1-11; John 4:4-52.
I’m convinced that John uses marriage as a metaphor for the new kinship established by the eucharist in the Christian community. Jesus’ first miracle in John, after all, was changing water into wine at a wedding feast. And, here we have Jesus meeting a woman at a well, where Isaac (or Abraham’s servant on Isaac’s behalf), Jacob, and even Moses all met their wives. And they met them by asking for water. And water becomes an unending supply of wine.
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