"How is it," replied the woman, "that a Jew like you asks me, who am a woman and a Samaritan, for water?" (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

Of the Samaritan population of that town a good many believed in Him because of the woman's statement when she declared, "He has told me all that I have ever done."

When however the Samaritans came to Him, they asked Him on all sides to stay with them; and He stayed there two days.

"Are we not right," answered the Jews, "in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?"