The woman is talking to two strange men at her door, without a husband or relative to shield her. That's a stoning offence!
The WTBTS has gone in to full-mode history manufacture, including a backstory for Timothy in 2005 (including a fictionalized buddy, Johnathan), to last year's drama with the telling of the relative fates of two Christian families - one who obeyed the elders and fled Jerusalem in time and, well, the materialistic family kept looking back....
Following the dramas, presentations and even TMS quizzes presented the information as historical fact.