John Trapp on John 4:9

Verſe 9. Askeſt drink of me?] The Samaritans knew that they were ſlighted of the Jewes, and tooke it ill, Gens haec (ſaith Giraldus Cambrenſis, of the Iriſh) ſicut & natio quaevis barbara, quanquam honorem neſciant, honorari tamen ſupra modum affectant. No man would be ſlighted, how mean ſoever.

For the Iewes have no dealings, &c.] Ioſephus writeth, that at Samaria was a Sanctuary opened by Sanballat, for all Renegado Jewes, &c. The Jewes therefore hated the preſence, the fire, Antiq. lib 11. cap. 7.8. the faſhion, the books of a Samaritan. Neither was their any hatred loſt on the Samaritans part; for if he had but touched a Jew, he would have thrown himſelf into the next water, clothes and all; Epiphan. both of them equally ſick of a noli me tangere.