process by which the evangelist achieves this is part of the very structure of the Gospel itself: Johannine women and men are presented to the reader in a series of ‘gender pairs’. Such a literary phenomenon has long been recognized by scholars with respect to Luke–Acts, and is regarded by many as a major Lukan literary technique.46 Of the very few references to the fact that John sometimes ‘pairs’ a woman and a man, the common example is Nicodemus and the Samaritan woman. In her article, ‘Battered