Bible Verses About Modern Samaria

They didn’t receive him, because he was traveling with his face set towards Jerusalem.

But a certain Samaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion,

came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

On the next day, when he departed, he took out two denarii, and gave them to the host, and said to him, ‘Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.’

Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?”

As he was on his way to Jerusalem, he was passing along the borders of Samaria and Galilee.

He fell on his face at Yeshua’s feet, giving him thanks; and he was a Samaritan.

Yeshua answered, “Weren’t the ten cleansed? But where are the nine?

Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this stranger?”

he left Judea, and departed into Galilee.

He needed to pass through Samaria.

So he came to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to his son, Joseph.

The Samaritan woman therefore said to him, “How is it that you, being a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?” (For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans.)

Are you greater than our father, Jacob, who gave us the well, and drank of it himself, as did his children, and his livestock?”

Our fathers worshiped in this mountain, and you Jews say that in Jerusalem is the place where people ought to worship.”

You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah comes, he who is called Messiah. When he has come, he will declare to us all things.”

“Come, see a man who told me everything that I did. Can this be the Messiah?”

From that city many of the Samaritans believed in him because of the word of the woman, who testified, “He told me everything that I did.”

So when the Samaritans came to him, they begged him to stay with them. He stayed there two days.

Many more believed because of his word.

They said to the woman, “Now we believe, not because of your speaking; for we have heard for ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Messiah, the Savior of the world.”

Then the Judeans answered him, “Don’t we say well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon?”

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you. You will be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the uttermost parts of the earth.”

Saul was consenting to his death. A great persecution arose against the assembly which was in Jerusalem in that day. They were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except for the emissaries.