A resiliência à luz do cuidado de Jesus com a mulher samaritana

Abstract

Jesus, through his care, brought a cultural break with his friendly behavior toward women. In the episode of the Samaritan this became very clear, Jesus turns aside and goes to another place, only to help an afflicted Samaritan woman. In this fascinating story one realizes that the master grants a human and intense treatment. He realizes that in that woman there was a potential for strength and disposition that had not yet been found even in his disciples. He works unconscious factors, and brings out a new modeling of woman, which would make a great differential in his time. At that time the woman was not seen as the likeness of God, but rather of sin. In this episode we see the Master Jesus guiding from inside to out a resilient and empowering force in the Samaritan woman in order to provide the revelation of his deepest emotional, spiritual, and social level. From that transforming moment she would no longer be seen as an infamous, classless woman, but a disciple of the Master of Galilee and a true Evangelist.