Unless you consider Samaritans gentiles. Which although the Jews did, I don't think Jesus did.
He doesn't countermand the distinction the Samaritan woman ((and also the disciples)) make, in the flesh, but speaks as though in the Spirit they are coequal. It's mirrored in the same distinction according to the flesh He makes when He sends out the disciples and specifies that they should go to the Jews and not to Samaritans.
John 4:20-23
Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, and you [Jews] say that in Jerusalem is the place where one ought to worship." Jesus said to her, "Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when you will neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, worship the Father. You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him.
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