Samaritan Woman in Hooded Robe

The Samaritan woman stands in first-century dress, wrapped in a hooded mantle over a simple tunic, her hands gathered at the folds of her garment and her gaze turned with alert contemplation. The portrait centers her as a woman of Samaria, remembered from John 4, where Jesus asks her for a drink and opens a conversation that crosses ethnic, social, and spiritual barriers. Her encounter at the well becomes a revelation of Christ as the giver of living water and the promised Messiah. This artwork serves well for teaching on grace, witness, spiritual thirst, women in Scripture, and the transforming mercy of Jesus. by Jeff Preston