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Joh 4:9. Πῶς, how is it) Her manifest simplicity shines forth from the very first words of the Samaritan woman.-Ἰουδαῖος, a Jew) From His dress or His dialect she inferred that He was a Jew.-οὐ γάρ, for not) A parenthesis of the Evangelist, expressing the cause why it seemed strange to the Samaritan woman. The Rabbinical maxim accords with this: To eat the bread of a Samaritan man, and to drink his wine, is unlawful.-συγχρῶνται, use together [have friendly dealings with]) What is denied is, not all intercourse between the Jews and Samaritans (comp. the previous verse; “His disciples were gone away unto the city to buy meat”), but intimacy.