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How much interest Christ manifested in this one woman! How earnest and eloquent were His words! When the woman heard them, she left her waterpot, and went into the city, saying to her friends, “Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?” We read that “many of the Samaritans of that city believed on Him.” Verses 29, 39 . And who can estimate the influence which these words have exerted for the saving of souls in the years that have passed since then?

Value individual conversations and personal witness. The influence on faith is narrated, not quantified. No modern clinical or conversion effect is inferred.

Wherever hearts are open to receive the truth, Christ is ready to instruct them. He reveals to them the Father, and the service acceptable to Him who reads the heart. For such He uses no parables. To them, as to the woman at the well, He says, “I that speak unto thee am He.”

Respond to openness with clear spiritual teaching. Spiritual revelation and recognition of Christ are outside this empirical review.