⁹ The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.)^[a](A)

Jesus before Pilate

²⁸ Then they took Jesus from Caiaphas to Pilate’s headquarters. It was early in the morning. They themselves did not enter the headquarters, so as to avoid ritual defilement and to be able to eat the Passover.^(A)

³ saying, “Why did you go to uncircumcised men and eat with them?”^(A)

⁸ And God, who knows the human heart, testified to them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us,^(A)

⁹ and in cleansing their hearts by faith he has made no distinction between them and us.^(A)