An Outcast Woman Of Samaria
Sermons On 10 Who Jesus Touched
Intent on avoiding even the appearance of competing with John,
whose disciples the Pharisees had goaded into a quarrel with his
own, Jesus decided to withdraw from Judea to pursue his mission
in Galilee. To do so, however, he must either travel by way of
Perea, fording the Jordan twice as many of his countrymen did, or
cross the full length of Samaria, which divided the two
provinces. It was a choice of no mean significance inasmuch as
the Jews and the Samaritans had long since severed relations with
bad blood between them.