“Then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, How is it that thou, being a Jew, askest drink of me, which am a woman of Samaria? for the Jews have no dealings with the Samaritans.”
The Samaritan woman said to him, 'You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink?' (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.) — the woman's surprise frames the major division between Jews and Samaritans: religious (Mount Gerizim versus Jerusalem), ethnic, and historical. The parenthetical explains the scandal of Jewish-Samaritan relations, signaling that what follows is a radical breach of sectarian boundaries.
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