Begin by telling the story (or reading the scripture) of the woman at the well from John chapter four. Tell it up to this point in the scripture, and then you may want to pause and say something like:

[Now, what follows is the scripture I’ll be preaching from. As Paul Harvey would say, here is the rest of the story.]

John 4:39-42

39Many Samaritans from that city believed in him because of the woman’s testimony, ‘He told me everything I have ever done.’ ⁴⁰So when the Samaritans came to him, they asked him to stay with them; and he stayed there for two days. ⁴¹And many more believed because of his word. ⁴²They said to the woman, ‘It is no longer because of what you said that we believe, for we have heard for ourselves, and we know that this is truly the Saviour of the world.’

This is the…