Notably, the first word out of his mouth is not “I.” Literally, he says, “Woman I saw in Timnah…” This follows up on the narrator’s note in Judges 14:1 that at Timnah Samson “saw one of the daughters of the Philistines.” This introducing of the adult Samson is a sign of what is to come.
2 Then he came up and told his father and mother, “I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. Now get her for me as my wife.”