Why did Jesus have to go to Samaria? What was the reaction in Samaria? 532-1 - 5 - 1

In the nearly 2000 years since the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ millions of Gentiles have accepted Jesus as their Savior while the majority of the Jews reject him as their Messiah. As it is now, so it was in the time that Jesus walked the earth. Jesus fulfilled more than 100 Messianic prophecies from the Old Testament. One of the most amazing is found in the Book of Daniel 9:25, Jesus made his entrance into Jerusalem to the very day predicted from the day Nehemiah was given permission to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem. The unschooled fisherman Peter writes “We also have the prophetic message as something completely reliable, and you will do well to pay attention to it, as to a light shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts. Above all, you must understand that no prophecy of scripture came about by the prophet’s own interpretation of things. For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.” ii Peter 1:19-21.

Jesus was led to go to Samaria in adherence to His charge to His disciples in the Great Commission. Matthew 28:19, “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” Jesus had a divine appointment with the Samarian woman also known as the woman at the well. Jesus told her about the living water and also about her rather scandalous background. The woman left her water pot and told people in her village, John 4:29 “Come, see a man, which told me all things that ever I did: is not this the Christ?”

Later the disciples returned to Jesus as he sat by the well and asked him to eat somethingd. He told them that he wasn’t hungry and that, John 4:32-34, “But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not of. Therefore said the disciples one to another, Hath any man brought him ought to eat? Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.”

John 4:39-42, “And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, which testified, He told me all that ever I did. So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days. And many more believed because of his own word; And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world.”


“The Saviour of the world” and yet John 1:11, “He came unto his own, and his own received him not.”