Lectio Divina: For the 3rd Sunday in Lent

Please read slowly and reflectively.

Slowly count to five at the end of each line.

A READING FROM THE GOSPEL OF JESUS ACCORDING TO JOHN (FIRST READER ONLY)

JESUS CAME TO A SAMARITAN CITY AND, TIRED OUT, SAT
DOWN BY THE WELL./

A SAMARITAN WOMAN CAME TO DRAW WATER./

JESUS SAID TO HER, "GIVE ME A DRINK."/

THE WOMAN SAID TO HIM, "HOW IS IT THAT YOU, A JEW, ASK A DRINK OF ME, A WOMAN OF SAMARIA?"/

JESUS ANSWERED,"IF YOU KNEW THE GIFT OF GOD,/

AND WHO IS SAYING TO YOU,'GIVE ME A DRINK'/

YOU WOULD HAVE ASKED HIM, AND HE WOULD HAVE GIVEN YOU LIVING WATER."/

SHE SAID TO HIM, 'YOU HAVE NO BUCKET, AND THE WELL IS DEEP/

WHERE DO YOU GET THAT LIVING WATER?"/

JESUS REPLIED, "THOSE WHO DRINK OF THE WATER I WILL GIVE WILL NEVER BE THIRSTY./

THE WATER THAT I WILL GIVE WILL BECOME IN THEM A SPRING OF WATER/

GUSHING UP TO ETERNAL LIFE."/

SHE SAID, "SIR, GIVE ME THIS WATER."/