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The Samaritan Woman at the Well is a story of great significance in Scripture. Her conversation with Jesus is the longest conversation recorded in Scripture.

When Jesus stopped and talked with her in the middle of the day, He defied cultural boundaries. Not only did he talk to a Samaritan, hated by the Jews, but he spoke publicly with a woman.

Her life was changed by that conversation with Jesus, and she went on to tell her whole community about what Jesus had done for her.

Although she was not mentioned by name in the Bible, she was celebrated as a saint of great renown and named Saint Photini or Photina by the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Her witness was said to have brought so many to the faith that she is described as "equal to the apostles". She suffered greatly for her faith and was eventually martyred. (John 4)