Description
Jesus and the Samaritan Woman — the meeting at Jacob’s well
The encounter of Jesus with the Samaritan woman is told in John 4. Christ crosses social, religious, and moral boundaries by speaking publicly with a Samaritan woman and asking her for water. The conversation gradually reveals that the stranger at the well is the Messiah who offers “living water.”
The passage is central to Christian reflection on conversion, baptism, and truthful worship. The woman arrives with an ordinary water jar and leaves as a witness, telling her town about the man who disclosed her life without rejecting her. The scene therefore joins personal repentance with mission.
Iconography and theological meaning
Christ is seated beside the stone well with a cross-inscribed halo and a teaching gesture. The woman stands with her jar and lowered, attentive posture. The well is both a real place and a theological center: earthly water points toward the life of grace. Christ’s extended hand makes the dialogue visible, while the gold field opens the historical landscape toward divine revelation.
For prayer and Christian devotion
An icon of Jesus and the Samaritan woman is especially fitting for adult baptism and reception into the Church, retreats, confession, spiritual renewal, and Scripture meditation. It speaks to anyone returning to faith or learning that Christ meets a person truthfully without reducing that person to past mistakes.
Crafted on linden wood in Poland
The image is printed directly onto a double-primed linden wood panel and finished with decorative gold leaf. Each made-to-order piece is produced in Poland, includes a certificate with the year of production, and has a hanger on the back. Natural wood, a luminous gold field, and precise contemporary drawing create sacred art suited to a home prayer corner, chapel, rectory, or a carefully chosen Catholic gift.