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Once John was arrested, Jesus and His five friends started back toward Galilee. Guided by an inner voice, the Holy Spirit, the Master startled the others by His decision to go home by way of Samaria.
Here, indeed, was a shock. Decent citizens avoided that province as they would a colony of lepers. The feeling of the Galileans against Samaritans was so deep and malicious that a mere glance from one was an insult, cause for a fight. That old feud between people of identical ancestry went back hundreds of years to the time when the Samaritans fraternized with invaders, when collaborationists married and intermarried, and forever since they had been held in revulsion by all patriots of Israel. The ancient hatred made trade and peaceful intercourse impossible in modern times.