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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nA progressive Episcopal pastor may have just uttered the most grossly twisted interpretation of Scripture, claiming that Jesus was flirting with the Samaritan woman, who was in turn trash-talking him about his semen and sexual abilities.
The Rev. Bryan O\u2019Carroll is the Rector of Holy Innocents Episcopal Church in Valrico, Florida, which he oversees with the help of the Rev. Kristian Hodge.
According to their mission statement, they are \u201ccommitted to following Jesus in every aspect of our lives. Our vision is to live together as faithful disciples of Jesus Christ, who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. We are all on a spiritual journey together and we need each other to fulfill our call as ministers of the gospel.\u201d
During his March 8 sermon, O\u2019Carroll, using John 4 and the story of the Samaritan woman, offered a novel exegesis of the text, claiming the two were flirting over a sexual double entendre in the use of the phrase \u201cliving water.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\u201cSo what is living water? Buckle up. Living water is a first century euphemism for \u2018semen.\u2019 \u2026.She thinks it is the more innuendo level, Jesus is talking on a different level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And so the next line, if you know that this is an innuendo, if you know that this is a comment, is hilarious, because she literally goes: \u2018hey buddy, you ain\u2019t got a bucket, how you gonna give me that \u2018living water?\u2019
It\u2019s funny. It\u2019s a funny line. This woman is actually, as a friend of mine said, this woman\u2019s talking trash at the well with Jesus. I didn\u2019t know that\u2019s what the story was about.
But they\u2019re flirting and they\u2019re joking and they\u2019re teasing. And at no point does Jesus condemn her. In fact, just the opposite, he laughs and he flirts back and he goes, \u2018no, no, no, I\u2019m talking about a water of life and of hope. I\u2019m inviting you into a deeper conversation with God. But that\u2019s pretty funny. It\u2019s pretty good.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\nEpiscopal pastor says Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well were FLIRTING, because Jesus’ use of the term ‘Living Water’ is actually a double entendre and a ‘first century euphemism for ‘SEMEN.’ pic.twitter.com\/nR2RV0VasH<\/a>\u2014 Protestia (@Protestia) March 18, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n\u2018Now he had to go through Samaria. So he came to a town in Samaria called Sychar, near the plot of ground Jacob had given to his son Joseph. Jacob\u2019s well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about noon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When a Samaritan woman came to draw water, Jesus said to her, \u201cWill you give me a drink?\u201d (His disciples had gone into the town to buy food.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Samaritan woman said to him, \u201cYou are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?\u201d (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jesus answered her, \u201cIf you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would have asked him and he would have given you living water.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSir,\u201d the woman said, \u201cyou have nothing to draw with and the well is deep. Where can you get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and his livestock?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jesus answered, \u201cEveryone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The woman said to him, \u201cSir, give me this water so that I won\u2019t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.\u201d
John 4:4-15 NIV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I offer this story up as we’re seeing a lot of stories about churches being burned up in various parts of the world, even Canada. So it points out that a lot of supposed “Christian” churches are not, and being outside the hedge of protection of God, they have their destruction coming, if not direct […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Jason","author_link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/author\/jturning\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16257"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16260,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16257\/revisions\/16260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}