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There were outcast groups, such as the Samaritans (John 4:9), who were considered a sort of "half breed;" the diseased, such as lepers; and to the Jews, and the tax-collectors (such as Zacchaeus, Luke 19:1-9), who were also Jewish, but serving the Roman oppressor and themselves by collecting unduly high taxes from the people.

There were also individuals, such as the "woman at the well" (John 4) in Samaria who was probably notorious for her many marriages and thus forced to use the well at the noon hour when others did not us it; and the demon-possessed man at the tombs in Mark 5:1-5.

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