“It is pertinent to the image of the reality that this [Samaritan] woman, who bore the type of the church, comes from strangers, for the church was to come from the Gentiles, an alien from the race of the Jews. In that woman, then, let us hear ourselves, and in her acknowledge ourselves and in her give thanks to God for ourselves.
Augustine, Tractates on the Gospel of John
In the Samaritan woman, the Bridegroom God of Israel reveals his intentions toward all the nations of the world, and toward every sinner, no matter who they are, where they come from, or what they’ve done. They, like she, need only ask for the gift of living water, and it will be given. ”