Jesus Clearly Claimed To Be The Messiah

You may have heard that Jesus never claimed to be the Messiah. This is clearly wrong as the disciple John tells us in the account of the woman at the well. There is only one Messiah and his name is Jesus. He is the eternal God and is the Son of God. He has always existed, but became human, born of a virgin. He then lived a sinless life and willingly gave himself as the sacrifice for the sin of humans. Three days later he arose from the grave. He showed himself to hundreds of people, then went back to his Father in heaven. He will soon return and set up his kingdom and rule with righteousness. He is the only one who paid for our sins.

John 4 ISV

1Now when Jesusa realized that the Pharisees had heard he was making and baptizing more disciples than John— 2although it was not Jesus who did the baptizing but his disciples— 3he left Judea and went back to Galilee. 4Now it was necessary for him to go through Samaria. 5So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the piece of land that Jacob had given to his son Joseph. 6Jacob’s Well was also there, and Jesus, tired out by the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.b

7A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus told her, “Please give me a drink,” 8since his disciples had gone off into town to buy food.

9The Samaritan woman asked him, “How can you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” Because Jews do not have anything to do with Samaritans.c

10Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who is saying to you, ‘Please give me a drink,’ you would have been the one to ask him, and he would have given you living water.”

11The womand told him, “Sir, you don’t have a bucket, and the well is deep. Where are you going to get this living water? 12You’re not greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it, along with his sons and his flocks, are you?”

13Jesus answered her, “Everyone who drinks this water will become thirsty again. 14But whoever drinks the water that I will give him will never become thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become a well of water for him, springing up to eternal life.”

15The woman told him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I won’t get thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.”

16He told her, “Go and call your husband, and come back here.”

17The woman answered him, “I don’t have a husband.”

Jesus told her, “You are quite right in saying, ‘I don’t have a husband,’ 18because you have had five husbands, and the man you have now is not your husband. What you have said is true.”

19The woman told him, “Sir, I see that you are a prophet! 20Our ancestors worshipped on this mountain. But you Jewse say that the place where people should worship is in Jerusalem.”

21Jesus told her, “Believe me, dear lady,f the hour is coming when you Samaritansg will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22You don’t know what you’re worshiping. We Jewsh know what we’re worshiping, because salvation comes from the Jews. 23Yet the time is coming, and is now here, when true worshipers will worship the Father in spiriti and truth. Indeed, the Father is looking for people like that to worship him. 24God is spirit,j and those who worship him must worship in spiritk and truth.”

25The woman told him, “I know that the Anointed Onel is coming, who is being called ‘the Messiah’.m When that person comes, he will explain everything.”

26“I am he,” Jesus replied, “the one who is speaking to you.”