The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

disciples (probably with the exception of John)
went on to the closely adjoining little town of
Sychar to buy food. Even this latter circumstance
marks that it was evening, since noon was not the
time either for the sale of provisions, nor for their
purchase by travellers. Once more it is when the
true Humanity of Jesus is set before us, in the
weakness of His hunger and weariness,* that the
glory of His Divine Personality suddenly shines
through it. This time it was a poor, ignorant
Samaritan wonian,^ who came, not for any
religious purpoee^—'indeed, to whom religious
thought, except within her own vwy nanvw circle,
was almost unintelligible—who became the
occasion of it. She had come—like so many of
U3« who find the pearl in the field which we
occupy in the business of everyday-life—on
humble, onliuary duty and work. Men call it
rommon : but there is nothing common and unclean
that G\>1 has sanctified by making use of it, or
which His lYeseuce and toachitig may transform
into a vision from hi>avcn.