Every chicken coop has its pecking order. The rooster is at the top. Then the hens come in order from the strongest to the weakest. This chain of command is observed from kindergarten through high school students; from local office politics to Corporate America, and extends from nation against nation.
In Jesus’ time the order began with the high priests, then the Jewish male, followed by the Jewish female, then somewhere near the bottom were the Samaritan males. The Samaritan women fell somewhere near or beneath male slaves
So the woman at the well in the Hebrew culture was among the most despised of human beings. Not only was she a Samaritan woman, she was a woman of poor reputation, demonstrated by the odd hour she came to the well and the number of men in her life. Yet Jesus went out of his way to bring her the gift of life (John 4).
God does not pay attention to human hierarchy. You are as important to him as the Queen of England or the President of the United States.
