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Samaritans were despised by the Jews because they were the result of intermarriage of the poorest class of Jews with the hated Assyrian conquerors. This woman is not only a Samaritan, she is dissolute, rude, and stupid. That the God of eternity would stop to have an interview with her ought to tell us something about God! Notice how gently He deals with her, appealing first to her sympathy and then to her curiosity.
The period known as His great Galilean ministry begins with verse 46, dated December A.D. 27. The miracle (verse 50) is not so much the healing of the boy, but it is the faith of the father. Most of us would have said, "When I get home and see my boy running around, then I'll believe."
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