Woman at the Well Healing from a Broken Spirit

The Apostle John shared a great example in scripture regarding brokenness through the account of the Samaritan Woman (John 4:4-30) – the ‘Woman at the Well.’ In the Biblical days, Jews hated Samaritans, and women were culturally demeaned. To place a Jewish man with the combination of the two – a Samaritan and a woman, would have been despicable to many Jews. It was the noon hour (hottest part of the day), when the woman at the well came to draw out water. Her brokenness must have led her to avoid meeting the other women knowing most had drawn from the well in the morning or evening. She must have been a woman of shame.