John 4:7

There cometh a woman of Samaria,.... Or "out of Samaria"; not out of the city of Samaria, but out of the country of Samaria; out of Sychar, a city of Samaria: her coming was not by chance, but by the…

Of Samaria - Not of the “city” of Samaria, for this was at a distance of 8 miles, but a woman who was a Samaritan, and doubtless from the city of Sychar. Give me to drink - This was in the heat of the…

There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water - That this was the employment of the females, we see in different parts of the Sacred Writings. See Gen 24:11, etc.; Exo 2:16, and the note at the end of…

We have here an account of the good Christ did in Samaria, when he passed through that country in his way to Galilee. The Samaritans, both in blood and religion, were mongrel Jews, the posterity of…

a woman of Samaria i.e. of the province; not of the cityof Samaria, at that time called Sebaste, in honour of Augustus, who had given it to Herod the Great. Herod's name for it survives in the modern…