At the well without a bucket

Focusing on two different but similar Biblical stories in the third Sunday of Lent, Phil Kniss, senior pastor at Park View Mennonite Church, Harrisonburg, VA, pointed out the two approaches the demanding Israelites took in their need for water in the Moses-in-the-desert Exodus story and the one Jesus took when showing his vulnerability to the Samaritan woman at the well in the gospel of John story. The Old Testament narrative points out how accusatory, demanding and threatening were Moses' people while Jesus, in his need for water, built a relationship and expressed a real need to the woman of Samaria.