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Scene 02 · Give Me a drink
Across the Divide
John 4:7–9 NKJV
The text
7A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 8For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. 9Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.
Context
Three walls stand between them: ethnicity (Jew and Samaritan), gender (a man speaking to a woman in public), and ritual purity (drinking from her vessel). Samaritans were descendants of the northern tribes mixed with foreign peoples after the Assyrian exile; they worshiped on Mount Gerizim and accepted only the Pentateuch. “Jews have no dealings with Samaritans” is John’s own gloss — the shock is the point.
Questions
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Why is the woman astonished that He asks her for water?
Question 3
Where had the disciples gone?
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