before Philip called you” (John 1:48). The woman picked up on this immediately and later told her neighbors, “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did” (4:29). 4:19–20. Embarrassed by Jesus’ penetrating analysis of her moral condition, the woman turned the discussion to religion, notably the proper place of worship. She conceded she was no longer talking to a dusty stranger with peculiar ideas about the source of water, but a prophet. The Jews had a long line of prophets, and they used the