John 4:27-29
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
27 At that moment his disciples returned, and were amazed that he was talking with a woman,[a] but still no one said, “What are you looking for?” or “Why are you talking with her?” 28 The woman left her water jar and went into the town and said to the people, 29 “Come see a man who told me everything I have done. Could he possibly be the Messiah?”
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- 4:27 Talking with a woman: a religious and social restriction that Jesus is pictured treating as unimportant.
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