The gospel attributed to the apostle John is a completely different gospel from the synoptic gospels, and is called the gospel of eternal life. And in this gospel there are stories about the life of Jesus that do not appear in the other gospels, such as the night meeting between Jesus and the teacher of the law Nicodemus in which Jesus spoke about spiritual rebirth, as well as the dialogue between Jesus and a Samaritan woman at Jacob's well, furthermore, the Gospel of John shows a completely different face of Jesus, as the personification of the perfections of God with the seven affirmations of the I am.
While Jesus was on earth, he was a spiritual teacher with great wisdom and he spoke about those mysteries that are beyond human reason and what the natural senses cannot perceive, and one of those mysteries is the contemplative life, the life that once obtained cannot be lost. And this is what the dialogue between Jesus and the Samaritan woman dealt with, when the teacher had arrived at the city of Sychar in the region of Samaria. The Bible relates that the relationship between Samaritans and Jews had always been marked by mistrust and hostility, ever since they were brought by the Assyrian Empire. This is why when Jesus sat by Jacob's well and saw the Samaritan woman approaching to take water from the well and asked her for a drink, the woman responded with hostility: "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?" John 4:9. So Jesus took advantage of this moment to speak metaphorically to the Samaritan woman about that living water that quenches all thirst. And so Jesus referred to himself as that personification of that wisdom that guides men to the contemplative life, the eternal life: "Whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life" John 4:14. With this Jesus left a very clear message, in the doctrine of the Kingdom of God, he as the "Son of Man" is that water that quenches the thirst for the knowledge of God that is present in the soul of every man.
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