The Divorced Woman

A divorced woman was told by her church that there was no hope for her because her marriage had ended. She continued to go to church but doubted that she could be saved and the church no longer allowed her to be involved in certain activities. Jesus did not treat the divorced this way. The woman at the well, in John 4, had been divorced five times and she was shacked up with a man who was not her husband. Yet, Jesus was more inviting to her than he was the religious leaders at the temple. In John 2 he drove the religious leaders out of the temple. Two chapters later he met this woman who had been through multiple divorces and he revealed himself as the Messiah. She went back to her hometown and brought the whole city out to meet him. Jesus not only saved her soul he used her to save an entire city. In this one episode the divorced woman was more fruitful in her evangelism than all 12 of the apostles.