Going Through Samaria

143:0.1At the end of June, A.D. 27, be­cause of the in­creas­ing op­po­si­tion of the Jew­ish re­li­gious rulers, Je­sus and the twelve de­parted from Je­ru­sa­lem, af­ter send­ing their tents and mea­ger per­sonal ef­fects to be stored at the home of Laz­a­rus at Beth­any. Go­ing north into Samaria, they tar­ried over the Sab­bath at Bethel. Here they preached for sev­eral days to the peo­ple who came from Gophna and Ephraim. A group of cit­i­zens from Ari­mathea and Thamna came over to in­vite Je­sus to visit their vil­lages. The Mas­ter and his apos­tles spent more than two weeks teach­ing the Jews and Samar­i­tans of this re­gion, many of whom came from as far as An­tipa­tris to hear the good news of the king­dom.

143:0.2The peo­ple of south­ern Samaria heard Je­sus gladly, and the apos­tles, with the ex­cep­tion of Ju­das Is­car­iot, suc­ceeded in over­com­ing much of their prej­u­dice against the Samar­i­tans. It was very dif­fi­cult for Ju­das to love these Samar­i­tans. The last week of July Je­sus and his as­so­ciates made ready to de­part for the new Greek cities of Phasaelis and Archelais near the Jor­dan.