Joh 4:9 | JFB | STEP | 9-12. How is it that thou —not altogether refusing, yet wondering at so unusual a request from a Jew, as His dress and dialect would at once discover Him to be, to a Samaritan. for, &c.—It is this national antipathy that gives point to the parable of the good Samaritan ( ), and the thankfulness of the Samaritan leper ( ).

John 4:9

9-12. How is it that thou—not altogether refusing, yet wondering at so unusual a request from a Jew, as His dress and dialect would at once discover Him to be, to a Samaritan.

for, &c.—It is this national antipathy that gives point to the parable of the good Samaritan (Lu 10:30-37), and the thankfulness of the Samaritan leper (Lu 17:16, 18).