This is the line that the Samaritans state to the woman whom Jesus interacts with at the well (today's Gospel passage). There is a whole lot of boundaries or social taboos that Jesus breaks or goes beyond - just in today's gospel passage. He is interacting with a non-Jew. That too a Samaritan. All the more a woman. That too a woman, of not so good repute.
And Jesus feels filled. "I have food that you do not know of!"
Jesus sees beyond each of these social barriers and obstacles and reaches out to a human being.
And that decision of Jesus, followed by his action of seeing through his mission, wins him a whole village!
The villagers now believe in Jesus not because he performed a miracle or a great favour. He merely interacted with them as a human being, a fellow creature. 
This particular image is the only one I came across where the woman is seated and Jesus is the one standing.
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