Bible TimeThe Time story of the Woman at the Well
The woman at the well starts to believe Jesus at the 6th hour. After two days her entire town has had a visitation of Jesus and is saved.
Background
The story of the Woman at the Well is a long story recorded in John chapter 4.
40 John 4:1-40
1When therefore the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John
2(although Jesus himself baptized not, but his disciples),
3he left Judea, and departed again into Galilee.
4And he must needs pass through Samaria.
5So he cometh to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph:
6and Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus by the well. It was about the sixth hour.
7There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water: Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
8For his disciples were gone away into the city to buy food.
9The Samaritan woman therefore saith unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a Samaritan woman? (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)
10Jesus answered and said unto 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.
11The woman saith unto him, Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is deep: whence then hast thou that living water?
12Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his sons, and his cattle?
13Jesus answered and said unto her, Every one that 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 become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal life.
15The woman saith unto him, Sir, give me this water, that I thirst not, neither come all the way hither to draw.
16Jesus saith unto her, Go, call thy husband, and come hither.
17The woman answered and said unto him, I have no husband. Jesus saith unto her, Thou saidst well, I have no husband:
18for thou hast had five husbands; and he whom thou now hast is not thy husband: this hast thou said truly.
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 neither in this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father.
22Ye worship that which ye know not: we worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
23But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth: for such doth the Father seek to be his worshippers.
24God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
25The woman saith unto him, I know that Messiah cometh (he that is called Christ): when he is come, he will declare unto us all things.
26Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he.
27And upon this came his disciples; and they marvelled that he was speaking with a woman; yet no man said, What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her?
28So the woman left her waterpot, and went away into the city, and saith to the people,
29Come, see a man, who told me all things that ever I did: can this be the Christ?
30They went out of the city, and were coming to him.
31In the mean while the disciples prayed him, saying, Rabbi, eat.
32But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not.
33The disciples therefore said one to another, Hath any man brought him aught to eat?
34Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.
35Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh the harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, and look on the fields, that they are white already unto harvest.
36He that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life eternal; that he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together.
37For herein is the saying true, One soweth, and another reapeth.
38I sent you to reap that whereon ye have not labored: others have labored, and ye are entered into their labor.
39And from that city many of the Samaritans believed on him because of the word of the woman, who testified, He told me all things that ever I did.
40So when the Samaritans came unto him, they besought him to abide with them: and he abode there two days.
Time Components
This story is built on 3 specific time components. First is the "About the 6th hour," the second is the "4 months" and the 3rd is the 2 days.
Most of this parable is built on time references that have not been properly introduced yet in this discussion of millennia parables.
Prophetically speaking, an hour is 210 historical years.
About appears to always be a 1/2 measure, so about the 6th hour is 5 full hours, or 5 * 210 = 1050 years, plus or minus 105 years. This is either 945 years (the more likely case) or perhaps 1155 years.
The story then references a 4 * 30 = 120 day period which is prophetic for 120 years and then it references a 2 day period which hits the standard 2 millennia according to the standard ratio of 1 day = 1000 years.
Running the Math
This story begins with Sammaria. That city was the eventual capital of the Northern Kingdom of ancient Israel. The first year of rule from Samaria was 10,074 AA. (By inspection from the master charts.)
The time reference of about the 6th hour is 10,074 + 945 = 11,019 AA the same year as Jesus’ public ministry.
The second time component, 120 days, is also a year based parable, or 120 years forward from Jesus’ era.
11,019 + 120 = 11,139 AA which is roughly the year 150 AD.
This period of history is poorly documented and it is hard to establish any sort of specific event to match.
The final component is 2 days and this is likely 2 full millennia, and those are likely the ones that started at Jesus’ own era. They are up in 2029-30 AD or so.
The players
Samaria was the capital of the Northern Kingdom of ancient Israel. That kingdom grew larger and become the western branch of the Roman empire. This parable explains that there would be 2000 years when Jesus stayed at this house before continuing his journey. The Roman world has been the seat of Christianity ever since the 1st century, as explained by this parable. Visit www.bibletribes.org for more on this subject.
