Anyone who loathes his brother or sister is truly a murderer at heart. (1 John 3:15) If this is true, the Jews and Samaritans must have all been murderers. The Jewish people despised the Samaritans. So, the Samaritans returned the hatred and anger toward the Jewish people. The Samaritan people disgusted the Jews so much so, that the Jews would not even touch or be within reach of the Samaritans. The Samaritans lived a difficult life with so much hate pressed upon their backs, which followed them like a shadow, never leaving their side. It was a constant reminder that the Jewish people hated them. To make it all worse, Samaria’s capital was located right in between Galilee and Judea. Galilee was located north, and Judea was south of Samaria.
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The Jews and Samaritans did not come into contact with a member of the other society, and if they did, people would have been utterly shocked. Take the story of the Samaritan woman and Jesus as an example. In John 4, Jesus had stopped by a well to get a drink of water. By the well, a Samaritan woman was retrieving water for herself there too. Jesus asked her for a drink, and she was shocked to find him speaking to her, not only because she was a woman, but also because he was a Jew, and she was a Samaritan. Later in the story, Jesus’ disciples returned from their task Jesus had sent them on. In John 4:27 it states, “ Just then His disciples came, and they were surprised to find Him talking to a woman. However, no one said, ‘What are you asking for?’ or, ‘Why are you talking to her?’ ” This encounter and shocked minds of the woman and disciples showed the nonexistent, loving relationship between the Jews and Samaritan people. Because the most common word that described the relationship between the two civilizations was antipathy, some have labeled the two as potential enemies since the …show more content…
The two societies did not come near the other because their beliefs were much different. Jews would rather have traveled around Samaria to travel from towns, which only made their journeys longer. Everyone knew Jews and the Samaritans did not interact with each other and were in disbelief if they ever saw members from one society in close spaces with people from the other. However, Jesus used the relationship, which was known to most as apathy, as a way to spread his message of who must love whom if one wanted to be a follower of
The Jews and Samaritans did not come into contact with a member of the other society, and if they did, people would have been utterly shocked. Take the story of the Samaritan woman and Jesus as an example. In John 4, Jesus had stopped by a well to get a drink of water. By the well, a Samaritan woman was retrieving water for herself there too. Jesus asked her for a drink, and she was shocked to find him speaking to her, not only because she was a woman, but also because he was a Jew, and she was a Samaritan. Later in the story, Jesus’ disciples returned from their task Jesus had sent them on. In John 4:27 it states, “ Just then His disciples came, and they were surprised to find Him talking to a woman. However, no one said, ‘What are you asking for?’ or, ‘Why are you talking to her?’ ” This encounter and shocked minds of the woman and disciples showed the nonexistent, loving relationship between the Jews and Samaritan people. Because the most common word that described the relationship between the two civilizations was antipathy, some have labeled the two as potential enemies since the …show more content…
The two societies did not come near the other because their beliefs were much different. Jews would rather have traveled around Samaria to travel from towns, which only made their journeys longer. Everyone knew Jews and the Samaritans did not interact with each other and were in disbelief if they ever saw members from one society in close spaces with people from the other. However, Jesus used the relationship, which was known to most as apathy, as a way to spread his message of who must love whom if one wanted to be a follower of