There cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water:
Jesus saith unto her, Give me to drink.
John 4:7
"The hatred between Jews and Samaritans prevented the woman from offering a kindness to Jesus; but the Savior was seeking to find the key to this heart, and with the tact born of divine love, He asked, not offered, a favor. The offer of a kindness might have been rejected; but trust awakens trust.
The King of heaven came to this outcast soul,
asking a service at her hands.
He who made the ocean, who controls the waters of the great deep,
.. rested from His weariness at Jacob's well,
and was dependent upon a stranger's kindness for even the gift of a drink of water."
Desire of Ages p.184 E.G.W.