米憐等傳教士在晚清耶穌傳記中重寫撒瑪利亞婦人的故事，漢語語境中書寫該故事的兩個焦點是守貞與慕道。守貞議題涉及兩段經文，此婦人曾有五個丈夫，以及她與耶穌的男女獨處。米憐、郭實獵、慕維廉刪除這個故事中婦人曾有五個丈夫有關的經文；同時弱化耶穌與撒瑪利亞婦人的性別色彩，以信仰而非性別實現二人的連接。慕道議題在於書寫撒瑪利亞婦人的信仰轉變歷程，郭實獵著重描繪耶穌與撒瑪利亞婦人的井邊論道場景，凸顯其由初時不信、及至後來主動回城傳道的轉變。通過上述兩個層面的改寫，作品為讀者樹立守貞、慕道的女性基督徒典範。

Chastity and faith are two controversial issues in the story of Samaritan woman rewritten in a Chinese context by William Milne and other missionaries. There are two parts of scriptures involving in the issue of chastity, the first one is that she has five husbands and the other one is that she talks with Jesus alone with no other bystanders. Missionaries, such as William Milne, Karl Gützlaff and William Muirhead deleted the scriptures of five husbands in the biographies, and eased up the scene of solitary conversation between man and woman to make a connection between Jesus and Samaritan woman by faith but not by gender. Meanwhile, authors established a female believer by highlighting their Christian discourse around the “Well” which symbolizes merit and morality in Zhouyi 周易, emphasized her transformation from a unbeliever to a missionary. Then, Samaritan woman becomes a model of female Christian with chastity and belief for Chinese audiences by the above writing strategies.