John may intend a contrast between the woman of this narrative [John Ch. 4] and Nicodemus of Ch. 3. He was learned, powerful, respected, orthodox, theologically trained; she was unschooled, without influence, despised, capable only of folk religion. He was a man, a Jew, a ruler; she was a woman, a Samaritan, a moral outcast. And both needed Jesus.
DA Carson
The Gospel According to John
IVP
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