Thank you. You may have seen a group of friends together who are all so preoccupied on their cell phones that they're missing out on the social opportunity that is right in front of them.

Maybe you've been in a group like that?

Well, today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg considers Jesus' response when the priorities of his disciples

got similarly off track. I'm going to read just part of John chapter 4, and you can follow along.

I'll guide you.

Now, when Jesus learned that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John,

although Jesus himself did not baptize but only his disciples, he left Judea and departed

again for Galilee. And he had to pass through Samaria. So he came to a town of Samaria called

Scyker near the field that Jacob had given to his son, Joseph. Jacob's well was there, so Jesus,

weary as he was from his journey, was sitting beside the well, it was about the sixth hour.

There came a woman of Samaria to draw water.

Jesus said to her, give me a drink, for his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

The Samaritan woman said to him, how is it that you a Jew,

ask for a drink from me, a woman of Samaria, for Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.

Jesus answered her, if you knew the gift of God and who it is that is saying to you, give me a drink,

you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.

The woman said to him, sir, you have nothing to draw water with, and the well is deep.

Where do you get that living water? Are you greater than our father, Jacob?

He gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did his sons and his livestock.

Jesus said to her everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, but whoever

drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty, forever.

And the water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal

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