What Is Samaritan in the Bible?
Person
From Samaria, the region between Galilee and Judea. Jews and Samaritans were at odds and did not deal with each other.
A detail
- That is why: it is surprising that Jesus speaks with the Samaritan woman and gives the good Samaritan as an example.
Where it appears in the Bible
John 4:9; Luke 10:33
What the Bible says
John 4:9
Then that Samaritan woman saith to him: How dost thou, being a Jew, ask of me to drink, who am a Samaritan woman? For the Jews do not communicate with the Samaritans.
Luke 10:33
But a certain Samaritan being on his journey, came near him; and seeing him, was moved with compassion.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: NAB note on John 4:9