Comparing the Book of Moses to the Book of John---- Story Number 6 of 21 ----
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Exodus 5
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John 4:1-26
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Exodus/John |
Innocence |
1And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. | Moses and Aaron tell Pharaoh to let the Jews go so they can travel out to wilderness to meet with God. God will take them in and out of the sea. |
1When therefore the Lord knew how the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made and baptized more disciples than John, 2(Though Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples,) 3He left Judaea, and departed again into Galilee. 4And he must needs go through Samaria. 5Then cometh he to a city of Samaria, which is called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. 6Now Jacob’s well was there. |
John baptizing in wilderness reference. Jesus travelling between cities. Jesus needs to go. Jesus comes to well. | Traveling to meet God means getting to some water first. |
Self Awareness |
2And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go. | Pharaoh says he knows not the Lord and won’t let Israel journey out to God. | Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour. | Jesus is tired from His journey and comes to a well. | Opposites: no journey and tired after journey. |
Government |
3And they said, The God of the Hebrews | Moses and Aaron say what God is telling the “Nation” of Egypt through the Pharaoh. Hebrews vs. Egyptians. | 7There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink. 8(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) 9Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans. | God speaks to the “Nation” of Samaria through the woman. Jews vs. Samarians. | The God of the Jews/Hebrews speaks to a foreign person. |
Promise |
hath met with us: | God met Moses and Aaron. | 10Jesus answered and said unto her, If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. | Woman doesn’t know that “God” is meeting with her. | When God meets people, some people recognize Him and some don’t. |
Law |
let us go, we pray thee, three days' journey into the desert, and sacrifice unto the LORD our God; | Let us travel into a place of no water (desert) to give sacrifice to God. | 11The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: from whence then hast thou that living water? 12Art thou greater than our father Jacob, which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle? 13Jesus answered and said unto her, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again: 14But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. 15The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come hither to draw. 16Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither. 17The woman answered and said, I have no husband. Jesus said unto her, Thou hast well said, I have no husband: 18For thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: in that saidst thou truly. | Jesus tells the woman that He gives water that makes you never thirst. She is also told to go get her husband and travel back. | Travel, desert (place of no water), and never thirsting again. |
Grace -in- |
lest he fall upon us with pestilence, or with the sword. | Must travel to mountain or bad things will happen. | 19The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou art a prophet. 20Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to worship. 21Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem, worship the Father. 22Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews. 23But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 24God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. | Woman tells where her father worshiped God; at mountain. Jesus tells her there is not a “place” to worship God any more. | Opposites: must travel out to mountain of God or bad thing will happen vs. you can’t travel to a mountain to worship God. |
God's Rule |
4And the king of Egypt said unto them, Wherefore do ye, Moses and Aaron, let the people from their works? get you unto your burdens. 5And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and ye make them rest from their burdens. 6And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying, 7Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore: let them go and gather straw for themselves. 8And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof: for they be idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God. 9Let there more work be laid upon the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words. 10And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw. 11Go ye, get you straw where ye can find it: yet not ought of your work shall be diminished. 12So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw. 13And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw. 14And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's taskmasters had set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day, as heretofore? 15Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants? 16There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people. 17But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle: therefore ye say, Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD. 18Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks. 19And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task. 20And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they came forth from Pharaoh: 21And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge; because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us. 22And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou so evil entreated this people? why is it that thou hast sent me? 23For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all. | Pharaoh doesn’t believe God is speaking to him, so Pharaoh starts telling the Jews all things that they should start doing. | 25The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things. 26Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he. | Woman believes that Messias will come and talk and tell all. Jesus says it is him. She believes Messias is speaking to her. | Opposites: Pharaoh doesn’t believe “God” is speaking to him but the woman does believe “God” is speaking to her. |
| Previous Story |
Exodus 4:19-31 : Moses told to return to Egypt and the first born will die, foreskin story, meets Aaron
John 3 : Jesus cleanses the temple, his Father’s house. Nidodemus, born again, and seeing the Kingdom of God. Must be born of water and the Spirit. |
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Exodus 6:1-8 : God tells Moses that he is about to see what is going to be done to Pharaoh
John 4:27-42 : Samaria woman still at the well. Disciples reap where they don’t labor. |
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