The Samaritan woman (η γυνη η Σαμαρειτις). Different idiom from that in 7, "the woman the Samaritan." The Samaritans were a mixtur…

No dealings with the Samaritans. For an account of the Samaritans, and of the differences between them and the Jews, see Barnes on Matthew…

Woman of Samaria (twice).—Better, Samaritan woman. In both cases, the Greek has the adjective. It is the religious and na…

(For his disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat.) Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askes…

St. John Chrysostom: So that this conversation might not appear to violate His own command against talking to the Samaritans, …

There was a trace of sarcasm in the woman’s reply, as if she meant, “We Samaritans are the dirt under your feet until you want something; then we a…

How do you, who are a Jew? This is a reproach, by which she throws back at him the contempt generally held by his nation. The Samaritans a…

Then says the woman of Samaria unto him
In a scoffing, jeering way,

There was great hatred between the Samaritans and the Jews. Christ's road from Judea to Galilee lay through Samaria. We should not go into places o…

1. Having set forth the teaching of Christ on spiritual regeneration and shown that Christ had given this grace to the Jews, the Evangelist …