To make their journey shorter, they take the quickest route, through Samaria.Tired and thirsty, Jesus sat by Jacob's well while his disciples went to the village of Sychar, roughly a half-mile away, to buy food. The shortest way to go north from Jerusalem was through Samaria. John 4:4 says that Jesus “had to” go through Samaria. The precise location of Sychar is a point of controversy. As Jesus and his disciples traveled northward through Samaria, they came to a city called Sychar. The story begins as Jesus and his disciples travel from Jerusalem in the south to Galilee in the north. The story of both Israel’s and Samaria’s failures in keeping to the way of Yahweh is partly told in Chapter 17 of the Second Book of Kings.
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New American Standard 1977 but you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.” Jesus took the direct route north from Jerusalem to Galilee through Samaria, in contrast to most Jews who took the longer, indirect route east of the River Jordan through Peraea because of their hatred for the Samaritans (see Map 6). (Matt. Gerizim, a peak some 2,850 feet high, about forty miles north of Jerusalem. The Good Samaritan The Samaritan Woman at the Well Jesus said "I have come to seek and to save that which was lost" and His message of the "gospel" (good news) was one that would penetrate far deeper than man had ever seen before. The hostility against Samaritans continued well into the first century, so much so that devout Jews would actually go many miles out of their way to avoid traveling through that hated land. They did not agree about where God’s people should *worship.
It was near Mt. Jesus and Samaria Most Christians connect Samaria with Jesus Christ because of two episodes in his life. Jesus goes through the places that we think are off-limits. Samaria was between *Galilee in the north and *Judea and Jerusalem in the south. See more ideas about Jesus pictures, Catholic prayers, Catholic faith. There was Galilee in the north, Samaria in the middle, and Judea in the south. Peter and John conducted a special mission to Samaria to confirm Samaritans who had already been baptized by Philip (Acts 8:14-17). They symbolize the extreme differences that existed within The Land in Jesus’ time. He stopped in a city called Sychar by a well named Jacob’s Well. In what has been called the limited commission, Jesus had earlier instructed the disciples to not preach in the cities of the Samaritans, but only to the "the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
22:12), but since Samaritan Israelite men observed Torah as well, this would not have been a distinguishing factor (Samaritan means the “keepers” of the Law and not the people who lived in Samaria). Samaria is one of those places and people that every Bible student will instantly recognize. Politically Galilee had been under separate administration from Judea during almost all its history since the tenth century B.C. Let's look at our maps: Jesus was leaving Judea and was going to Galilee.As you can see, Jesus had to travel through Samaria. Jesus went through it! Jesus and the Samaritans Jun 1, 2020 - Explore jaime9717's board "Samaria" on Pinterest. For hundreds of years the Jews and the people of Samaria had been enemies.
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