“Go, call your husband, and come here” Jesus said to the woman at the ancient well of Samaria. The two had struck up a conversation while Jesus was waiting for his disciples to return from the city of Sychar with supplies. He was in an uncomfortable situation, for he was speaking publicly with an unaccompanied woman as an outsider in this hostile territory. Jesus, being a Jew, was an unwelcome visitor in this part of Roman Palestine, and carrying on a long conversation with a woman would have been roundly frowned upon.