Jesus talks to the Samaritan woman: A dialogic analysis (2025)

Wong, ReReading Jesus and Photini (APD, 2024)

"Re-Reading Jesus and Photini: Dialogic Encounter in Openness to the Future", 2024

Publication of paper from the Vatican (Dicastery of Interreligious Dialogue) conference on "Women Building a Culture of Encounter Interreligiously."

Jesus and the Samaritan woman (John 4:1-42) : a paradigmatic encounter for discipleship [μαθητής] and witness [μαρτυρία]

2019

The Gospel of John relates intense dialogues, often long and complexly difficult, between Jesus and the most diverse people. The first is with Nicodemus, in chapter 3; then we encounter the Samaritan woman (4), the man born blind (9), Martha and Mary, upon the death of their brother, Lazarus (11). They are called dialogues of "revelation" because they become occasions of "self-revelation", wherein Jesus, while talking with one of these personalities, reveals Himself, and tells the paradigmatic reader something of Himself. To Nicodemus, who knows all the laws, who goes to Him by night, Jesus speaks of himself as a free and limitless love, which brings you where you do not know; to the Samaritan woman, who has a great thirst for love, who comes there with the baggage of her wounded and complex history, He speaks to her of living water; to the blind man he reveals Himself as light; to the sisters of Bethany, who are weeping at the death of their dear one, Jesus is resurrection and life. Modern disciples are thus affirmed that Jesus reaches and enters every human story. He is at one with all humanity: and thus, He reveals Himself. And while He reveals Himself, something happens in the one He is speaking to, who becomes involved in the dialogue, so in the end he finds himself different from what he was at the beginning of the encounter: life is transformed by it and salvation happens in every story.

Jesus Call on Women as Disciples

The Gospel of John stands in dialogical relationship with the Synoptic Gospels, and more pointedly with Mark’s Gospel in confronting growing male dominance over and against the early memory of Jesus’s intent for women. John’s Gospel advocates for equal partnership between women and men, Jew and on-Jew, in every aspect of Jesus’s mission, message, and ministry by depicting twelve calling elements, beginning with the Greek verb zeteō. These calling elements appear in the Johannine calling narrative of five men in the first chapter, and with at least two women in later chapters. John’s inclusion of women’s stories could be incidental but are more likely in response to the relative absence of women disciples and women in apostolic ministry as depicted in Mark’s and Matthew’s Gospels. The high view of Christ and of the scriptures will lead modern Christians to hearken to John’s portrayal of both women and men in Jesus’s apostolic mission, and thereby support Christ’s work in calling both men and women to every level of mission and leadership in the church today.

Revisiting the Woman of Samaria and the Ambiguity of Faith in John 4:4-42

The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2019

In Das Evangelium des Johannes (1941), Rudolf Bultmann argues that John's account of the Samaritan woman in John 4:4-42 serves only as a catalyst in bringing the Samaritans to Jesus. Her strange question μήτι οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ χριστός (v. 29, NRSV: "He cannot be the Messiah, can he?") arouses the townspeople's curiosity and they come to Jesus (v. 30). John's profound sense of irony and ambiguity suggests that the woman may not have come to belief in Jesus, but the townspeople have (πιστεύομεν, "we believe," v. 42). Bultmann's reading is no longer accepted, replaced now by the widely welcomed view that the woman has come to faith in Jesus-a conversion story. Revisiting John 4:4-42 here, I offer a semantic argument and suggest that scholarship on John 4 ought to consider the ambiguity of the accountthe woman may not have arrived at faith in Jesus.

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Johannine Women as Paradigms in the Indian Context

Acta Theologica, 2019

Female leadership in the New Testament : a socio-historical study / Laura Maleya Mautsa

2007

The purpose of this Gospel 5.2.4 The addressees and their circumstances 5.2.5 The socio-historical context of the ~ericope 5.2.6 Conclusion 5.3 The textual context 5.4 Study of the key concepts in the pericope 5.4.1 The Samaritan woman in dialogue 1 5.4.2 The Samaritan woman in dialogue 2 5.4.3 The Narrator's comment 5.5 The Samaritan woman as a leader 5.5.1 Following the leader 5.5.2 Challenging the process 5.5.3 Inspiring a shared vision 5.5.4 Enabling others to act 5.5.5 Modelling the way 5.5.6 Encouraging the heart 5. 6 Conclusion 5.1 p a e r i~p~a in domain j6 6.5.4 nabl ling others to ad 6.4.1.2 'Disciple' in other parts of the Bible 6.5.5 Modelling the way 6.4.1.3 The meaning of p a 8 4~p~a in Acts 6.5.6 Encouraging the heart 9:36-42 6.6 Conclusion 6.1

Jesus, Foreign Women, and the Expanding Mission in the Synoptics and John

(full text) Liber Annuus SBF 73 (2023): 245-64, 2024

All four canonical Gospels address the theme of transcending social barriers in the mission and among believers themselves. Three of the four do so by narrating an encounter between Jesus and an anonymous woman from another people: a Syrophoenician in Mark 7:24-30, a Canaanite in Matt 15:21-28, and a Samaritan in John 4:1-42. The parallel Synoptic texts recount a miracle story, while the Johannine pericope narrates a meeting at a well. Nevertheless, these episodes employ parallel narrative and lexical elements as they offer similar responses to similar missionary con-cerns.

Samaritan Israelites and Jews under the Shadow of Rome: Reading John 4:4–45 in Ephesus

Religions

Genealogies, knowledge, and purity all can provide separate identities with the means for competing self-definition. This article assumes a social location near Ephesus with Samaritan Israelites and Judeans in a Jesus-believing network. Rather than providing an analysis in which divisions are transcended, this reading suggests that a negotiation in John 4:4–45 of these three characteristics navigates divisions to create a complex, merged superordinate identity.

Jesus and The Samaritan Woman: An Exegetical Study of John 4:1-45

Jesus and The Samaritan Woman: An Exegetical Study of John 4:1-45, 2024

This paper examines the marriage metaphor of Christ and the Church in light of the story of redemption.