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May 2019. Christian Journal for Global Health 6(1)           

 

 

Jacob’s Pharmacy 

Jacob D. Blaira 

a PharmD, Christian Urban Development Association, Arequipa, Peru 

 
Now 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’s pharmacy was 

there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the pharmacy.  It 

was about noon.  When a Samaritan woman came to fill her prescription, Jesus 

said to her, “Will you give me some medicine?”  (His disciples had gone into the 

town to buy food.)  The Samaritan woman said to him, “You are a Jew and I am a 

Samaritan woman.  How can you ask me for medicine?”  (For Jews do not associate 

with Samaritans.) Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is 

that asks you for medicine, you would have asked him and he would have given 

you living medicine.”  “Sir,” the woman said, “you have no prescription and the 

medicine is controlled.  Where can you get this living medicine?  Are you greater 

than our father Jacob who gave us the pharmacy and filled his prescriptions here 

himself as did also his sons and his livestock?”  Jesus answered, “Everyone who 

takes this medicine will be sick again, but whoever takes the medicine I give them 

will never get sick.  Indeed, the medicine I give them will become in them a miracle 

cure leading to eternal life.”  The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this medicine 

so that I won’t get sick and have to keep coming here to fill my prescriptions.” 

 

Adapted from John 4:4-15 (NIV) 

 

Submitted 16 Nov 2018, accepted 20 Dec 2018, published 31 May 2019 
 
Competing Interests: None declared.     
 
Correspondence: Jacob D Blair, Arequipa, Peru. jblair@harding.edu 

 
Cite this article as:  Blair JD. Jacob’s Pharmacy. Christian Journal for Global Health. May 2019; 
6(1):90. https://doi.org/10.15566/cjgh.v6i1.263  
 
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