Bible Verses About Modern Samaria

and they did not receive him, because his face was going on to Jerusalem.

`But a certain Samaritan, journeying, came along him, and having seen him, he was moved with compassion,

and having come near, he bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine, and having lifted him up on his own beast, he brought him to an inn, and was careful of him;

and on the morrow, going forth, taking out two denaries, he gave to the innkeeper, and said to him, Be careful of him, and whatever thou mayest spend more, I, in my coming again, will give back to thee.

`Who, then, of these three, seemeth to thee to have become neighbour of him who fell among the robbers?'

And it came to pass, in his going on to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee,

and he fell upon his face at his feet, giving thanks to him, and he was a Samaritan.

And Jesus answering said, `Were not the ten cleansed, and the nine--where?

There were not found who did turn back to give glory to God, except this alien;'

he left Judea and went away again to Galilee,

and it was behoving him to go through Samaria.

He cometh, therefore, to a city of Samaria, called Sychar, near to the place that Jacob gave to Joseph his son;

the Samaritan woman therefore saith to him, `How dost thou, being a Jew, ask drink from me, being a Samaritan woman?' for Jews have no dealing with Samaritans.

Art thou greater than our father Jacob, who did give us the well, and himself out of it did drink, and his sons, and his cattle?'

our fathers in this mountain did worship, and ye--ye say that in Jerusalem is the place where it behoveth to worship.'

ye worship what ye have not known; we worship what we have known, because the salvation is of the Jews;

The woman saith to him, `I have known that Messiah doth come, who is called Christ, when that one may come, he will tell us all things;'

`Come, see a man, who told me all things--as many as I did; is this the Christ?'

And from that city many believed in him, of the Samaritans, because of the word of the woman testifying, --`He told me all things--as many as I did.'

When, then, the Samaritans came unto him, they were asking him to remain with them, and he remained there two days;

and many more did believe because of his word,

and said to the woman--`No more because of thy speaking do we believe; for we ourselves have heard and known that this is truly the Saviour of the world--the Christ.'

The Jews, therefore, answered and said to him, `Do we not say well, that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon?'

but ye shall receive power at the coming of the Holy Spirit upon you, and ye shall be witnesses to me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and Samaria, and unto the end of the earth.'

And Saul was assenting to his death, and there came in that day a great persecution upon the assembly in Jerusalem, all also were scattered abroad in the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles;