The Well of Jacob - Silver icon on wood, locally gold plated - Mount Athos

Seriograph icon crafted in canvas on wood, with silver frame, locally gilded, with wooden casing.

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The Well of Jacob

In the vicinity of a well, Jesus and a woman from Samaria had a conversation which was embedded in the New Testament. The birth origin of Jesus induced the Samaritans to believe in Him, after they were persuaded by the words of the woman, being herself convinced by the words of Christ himself.

The encounter between Jesus and the Samaritan took place in the Samaritan city Sichar, by the well of Jacob. Jesus was tired and asked the woman to pull water from the well but she denied because they came from different tribes, she being a Samaritan and He being a Judean. During their discourse the woman realized that the man to Whom she had been talking was the Savior, the Messiah, and ran to inform her fellow countrymen. In the next two days the majority of the people in the area were already convinced that He was their Messiah.

It is a deep well made of solid stone, which is related to Jacob for two millennia. It is located at a walking distance from the archeological site of Tell Balata – at the Palestinian West Bank - the biblical Sechem. Jews, Samaritans, Christians and Muslims refer in their traditions, the well of Jacob. In the New Testament (John 4-5-6) it is in the well of Jacob that Jesus encountered the Samaritan woman (Saint Fotini, according to Orthodox tradition) a lieu where Christian baptisms were probably taking place. In 384 AD, a church was built over the well, which was probably destroyed during the uprisings of the Samaritans, between 484 and 529 AD. The church was re-built when Justinian was emperor and remained intact until the early 9th century.