Re: Was The Woman at the Well Jesus’ first miracle?
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Limnor wrote: ↑Mon Nov 10, 2025 3:54 pm
That’s a really interesting distinction—miracle versus miraculous moment.
Generally people expect a “miracle” to bend or break the physical world: the blind see, water turns to wine, storms obey.
A “miraculous moment” could be defined as one that keeps the world intact but reframes it, maybe the same water, the same person, but a radical change in perspective.
The Woman at the Well feels more like that. Nothing supernatural happens, at least externally, but everything changes for the woman.
A couple of additional examples might include when the disciples on the road to Emmaus recognize Jesus only after he breaks the bread, nothing physical happened to change the natural world, but what they see certainly has. Maybe Nathanael under the fig tree: no physical miracle, just the sudden awareness of being known.
Reading John as literature is very symbolic. John never seems to let a symbol go to waste. The location of the story at Jacob’s well, the five husbands’ reference, and the mention of living water almost reads like a parable built from Israel’s own history.
Several early and modern interpreters link the woman’s five husbands to Samaria’s five imported nations in 2 Kings 17. If that’s an accurate reading, the woman might personify Samaria itself meeting her true husband at the old covenant well. That reading turns the dialogue into a reunion between God and divided Israel.
If the woman represents Samaria, does that make this story a miniature of John’s entire point—God reconciling the divided house through Christ? Or is it simply a personal conversion narrative? How do we tell when a religious text crosses from history into allegory?
Sorry spy didn’t see your reply until a moment ago at the time of writing this furst bit of text. Anyways 9/10 ABFH Likely was created as a reaction to another miracle.
Daybell reminds Charlie & Chad both begin with CH . . . * . . . . . . . . ** is his signature text that ends with another representation of another miracle.
https://slogbog.com/viewtopic.php?t=1366 is ABFH’s first OP (Original Post) in his first thread entitled A Course in Miracles.
His impetus involved blood exploding profusely on the SAME DAY the main dude at Zion Media received my package. It contained Chad’s poem from when spy sent him a similar package many moons ago.
Joseph Smith said words about stuff that happens on the SAME DAY, which may be understood in different ways. All understandings depend on definitions used to express them.
probably you in-tuned the meaning of 9/10 ABFH, whose avatar image show earthquakes in the background. Brother Aeye even squooze the words representing the acronym appropriately as per their definitions.
Said Brother shall soon add his comments about this as Today’s post in his introductory thread. 1366 may be said to hint of . . . * . . . . . . . . **
