Section 9
It would not have been as convenient for the Lord to talk to that immoral woman about her husbands. So the Lord, in His sovereignty and wisdom, sent His disciples away to the city to buy food. Perhaps the Lord was thinking, "Please leave Me alone. I'm waiting for that immoral woman. Because she is so immoral, she doesn't want to see anyone or talk to anyone. But I am going to touch her conscience with the history of all her husbands. You disciples must leave." Without the excuse of buying food, how could the Lord have sent the disciples away? While the disciples went away to purchase the food, the woman came. When I saw the picture as a young man, I worshipped the Lord. Suppose the Lord was in a house at midnight and this woman came to speak to Him during the night, and the dis ciples saw it. They probably would have said, "What are you doing here? Jesus, you are a man a little over thirty years of age and she is such a woman. What is going on here?" In His sov ereignty and wisdom, the Lord waited for the woman to come under the bright sunshine and in the open air. Even under the open air, there was no one present to listen to the conversation. When the Lord and the Samaritan woman had finished their talk, the disciples returned and