He sent messengers in front of him. They went and entered a Samaritan village to make preparations for him,
These twelve men Jesus despatched with the following instructions, "Do not go among the Gentiles, and do not enter a Samaritan town,
and he fell on his face at the feet of Jesus and thanked him. The man was a Samaritan.
However a Samaritan traveller came to where he was and felt pity when he saw him;
After that the Lord commissioned other seventy disciples, sending them in front of him two by two to every town and place that he intended to visit himself.
The Jews retorted, "Are we not right in saying you are a Samaritan, you are mad?"
This is he of whom it is written, Here I send my messenger before your face, to prepare the way for you.
Now it happened in the course of his journey to Jerusalem that he passed between Samaria and Galilee.
He had to pass through Samaria,
and in so doing he arrived at a Samaritan town called Sychar; it lay near the territory which Jacob had given to his son Joseph,
The Samaritan woman said, "What? You are a Jew, and you ask me for a drink — me, a Samaritan!" (Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)