The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah comes," (he who is called Christ). "When he has come, he will declare to us all things."

 The Jewish-Samaritan quarrel was more than 400 years old. But it smouldered as resentfully and as bitterly as ever. It was small wonder that the Samaritan woman was astonished that Jesus, a Jew, should speak to her, a Samaritan. 