Freedom River Church - Jesus and the Desperate Housewife

In John 4:4 Jesus says to His disciples, "...I must needs go through Samaria..."
Well, He didn't HAVE to go through Samaria. He could have taken the long route like other respectable Jews.
Jesus, obviously, felt the imperative to take these twelve Jewish men, who are to be the progenitors of the Kingdom, through a region they had avoided their whole life. He wanted to go through a region His culture had been taught to avoid.
He walks into Samaria and goes to the first town of Sychar. He then makes His way to the middle of town and sits down at a well where He meets A WOMAN. This is not just any woman. It's a Samaritan woman! Oh, my goodness, what in the world is Jesus doing?