John 4:27-Just then his disciples came back. They marveled that he was talking with a woman, but no one said, “What do you seek?” or, “Why are you talking with her?”

In continuing with this conversation between the “woman at the well” and Jesus, the disciples come on the scene and are shocked by what they see, but they don’t say a word.  The two questions in the passage imply that if this was not Jesus and some other Jewish man, like a Rabbi, the disciples probably would have asked the woman what was she seeking?  It was forbidden by their Jewish law for a Rabbi to be interacting with a woman, especially a Samaritan!  But since Jesus was doing it everyone was silent….

Fittingly they did not question Jesus either, asking Him “why are you talking to her”?  Though they thought from the perspective of Jewish society it was wrong, they knew in their hearts the standard of all truth, what is right or wrong, was set by Jesus.  Jesus as the Truth dictated the environment around Him, He did not drift into the bias standard of sinful society. That He as the Living Word sets the standard as to how people should live and relate to each other.

We are all like the disciples in the sense that we are growing in grace to be “silenced” when we see The Truth reshape how we see things.  We all are conditioned by our society in many ways.  But it is only gazing upon Christ the Living Word, do we begin to set liberating standards in love within the environments we came from and now live in.

In His Love, Ld