John 4:5-19, 28-29

The account before us reveals that Jesus’ ministry was not to the Jew only, but also to them who were outside of Judaism. Samaritans were considered to be half-breeds who were practitioners of a false religion. The Samaritan population had descended from Jews who had intermarried with their Assyrian conquerors hundreds of years earlier. While holding to books of Moses as scripture, Samaritans considered Mount Gerizim, not Jerusalem, to be the proper…