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7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.”
8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
9 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For aJews have no dealings with bSamaritans.  
10 Jesus answered and said to her, “If you knew the agift of God, and who it is who says to you, ‘Give Me a drink,’ you would have asked Him, and He would have given you bliving water.”  
11 The woman said to Him, “Sir, You have nothing to draw with, and the well is deep. Where then do You get that living water?
12 Are You greater than our father Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank from it himself, as well as his sons and his livestock?”
13 Jesus answered and said to her, “Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again,
14 but awhoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him bwill become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.”  
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John 4:9

The Samaritan woman (h gunh h Samareitiv). Different idiom from that in John 4:7, "the woman the Samaritan." The Samaritans were a mixture by intermarriage of the Jews left in the land (II Chronicles 30:6, II Chronicles 30:10; II Chronicles 34:9) with colonists from Babylon and other regions sent by Shalmaneser. They had had a temple of their own on Mt. Gerizim and still worshipped there.

Thou being a Jew (su Ioudaiov wn). Race antipathy was all the keener because the Samaritans were half Jews.

Drink (pein). Same infinitive form as in John 4:7 and the object of aiteiv (askest).

Of me (par emou). "From me," ablative case with para.

For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans (ou gar sunxrwntai Ioudaioi Samareitaiv). Explanatory (gar) parenthesis of the woman's astonishment. Associative instrumental case with sunxrwntai (present middle indicative of sunxraomai, compound in literary Koin‚, here only in N.T.). The woman's astonishment is ironical according to Bernard. At any rate the disciples had to buy food in a Samaritan village and they were travelling through Samaria. Perhaps she was surprised that Jesus would drink out of her waterpot. The Western class omit this explanatory parenthesis of the author.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing John 4:9:

John 4:40
John 8:48

 

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