Bible Verses About Modern Samaria

However, the people there would not let him stay, because his destination was Yerushalayim.

“But a man from Shomron who was traveling came upon him; and when he saw him, he was moved with compassion.

So he went up to him, put oil and wine on his wounds and bandaged them. Then he set him on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him.

The next day, he took out two days’ wages, gave them to the innkeeper and said, ‘Look after him; and if you spend more than this, I’ll pay you back when I return.’

Of these three, which one seems to you to have become the ‘neighbor’ of the man who fell among robbers?”

On his way to Yerushalayim, Yeshua passed along the border country between Shomron and the Galil.

and fell on his face at Yeshua’s feet to thank him. Now he was from Shomron.

Yeshua said, “Weren’t ten cleansed? Where are the other nine?

Was no one found coming back to give glory to God except this foreigner?”

Yeshua left Y’hudah and set out again for the Galil.

This meant that he had to pass through Shomron.

He came to a town in Shomron called Sh’khem, near the field Ya‘akov had given to his son Yosef.

The woman from Shomron said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask for water from me, a woman of Shomron?” (For Jews don’t associate with people from Shomron.)

You aren’t greater than our father Ya‘akov, are you? He gave us this well and drank from it, and so did his sons and his cattle.”

“Our fathers worshipped on this mountain, but you people say that the place where one has to worship is in Yerushalayim.”

You people don’t know what you are worshipping; we worship what we do know, because salvation comes from the Jews.

The woman replied, “I know that Mashiach is coming” (that is, “the one who has been anointed”). “When he comes, he will tell us everything.”

“Come, see a man who told me everything I’ve ever done. Could it be that this is the Messiah?”

Many people from that town in Shomron put their trust in him because of the woman’s testimony, “He told me all the things I did.”

So when these people from Shomron came to him, they asked him to stay with them. He stayed two days,

and many more came to trust because of what he said.

They said to the woman, “We no longer trust because of what you said, because we have heard for ourselves. We know indeed that this man really is the Savior of the world.”

The Judeans answered him, “Aren’t we right in saying you are from Shomron and have a demon?”

But you will receive power when the Ruach HaKodesh comes upon you; you will be my witnesses both in Yerushalayim and in all Y’hudah and Shomron, indeed to the ends of the earth!”

and Sha’ul gave his approval to his murder. Starting with that day, there arose intense persecution against the Messianic Community in Yerushalayim; all but the emissaries were scattered throughout the regions of Y’hudah and Shomron.