The Samaritan Woman

Foreseeing the peril to which He might be exposed, Jesus, "when He knew how the Pharisees had heard that He made and baptized more disciples then John, left Judea and departed again unto Galilee." His nearest and most direct route lay through the central district of Samaria. This district was inhabited by a people of a foreign origin, and with a somewhat curi­ous history. When the king of Assyria carried the ten tribes into captivity, it is said that, in order to fill the void which their exile...