Today's study John Chapter 4. Verse 7 A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, “Give Me a drink.” 8 For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food. 9 Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, “How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. Study guide. It was very unusual for a Jewish person of that time to ask a favor or accept a drink from a Samaritan’s cup. At that time there was a lot of animosity between the Samaritans and the Jews. When the Babylonians conquered the southern kingdom of Judah, they took almost all the population captive, exiling them to the Babylonian Empire. All they left behind were the lowest classes of society. These ones left behind intermarried with other non-Jewish peoples who slowly came into the region, and the Samaritans emerged as an ethnic and religious groupof their own. When the Jews returned from their captivity their differences divided them.