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• Parable of the Good Samaritan

  The Parable of the Good Samaritan is a parable of Jesus recorded in Luke 10:25-37. In answer to a lawyer's question, "Who is my neighbour?", Jesus tells the story of a Samaritan who helped a man who had been attacked by robbers.

• Samaritan Woman

  The Samaritan woman is an unnamed woman in John 4 who spoke with Jesus at Jacob's well near the Samaritan town of Sychar and then told the people of her town about him.

• Samaritan Pentateuch

  The Samaritan Pentateuch is the Hebrew text of the Five Books of Moses that the Samaritan community has preserved from generation to generation. It agrees with the Masoretic Text used in Judaism in most respects, but it differs in certain places, notably in passages that exalt Mount Gerizim as the place of worship.

• Samaritans

  The Samaritans were a people who lived in the region of Samaria in central Palestine, regarded Mount Gerizim as their place of worship, and accepted only the Five Books of Moses as Scripture. In the New Testament period they were bitterly at odds with the Jews.

• Simon Magus

  Simon Magus is the Samaritan sorcerer who appears in Acts 8. After being baptized, he tried to buy the power to impart the Holy Spirit and was rebuked by Peter. The term "simony," meaning the buying and selling of church offices, is derived from his name.

• Healing of the Royal Official's Son

  The healing of the royal official's son is the event in which Jesus, while at Cana in Galilee, healed by his word alone the son of a royal official in Capernaum. It is recorded in John 4:46-54, and the Gospel of John calls it the "second sign."

• John 4:24

  In this verse Jesus tells the Samaritan woman, "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth." The verse speaks to what true worship rests on, if not on a particular place, and it is frequently cited in discussions of the forms of worship.

• Jacob's Well

  Jacob's Well is the well near Sychar in Samaria where Jesus spoke with the Samaritan woman in John 4. The Samaritans remembered it as the well given to them by their ancestor Jacob.

• Sychar

  Sychar is a town in the region of Samaria mentioned in John 4, where Jesus spoke with the Samaritan woman beside Jacob's well. Scholars disagree about its exact location.

• Kyrios

  Kyrios (κύριος) is a Greek word meaning "lord" or "master." The Septuagint used it to render the name of God, and in the New Testament it is the principal title for Jesus Christ.

• The Ten Lepers

  An account in which Jesus heals ten lepers on his way to Jerusalem, but only one of them, a Samaritan, returns to give thanks. It appears only in Luke 17:11-19.

• Lawyer (New Testament)

  In the New Testament, especially the Gospel of Luke, a lawyer was an expert who studied and interpreted the Law of Moses. The best-known example is the lawyer who asked Jesus how to inherit eternal life, prompting the parable of the Good Samaritan.

• John 4:20–23

  In this passage Jesus tells a Samaritan woman that worship offered "in spirit and in truth" matters more than the place of worship. It is one of the passages most frequently cited in Korean churches when discussing the nature of worship.

• Luke 10

  Luke 10 is the chapter in which Jesus sends out the seventy, two by two, to proclaim the kingdom of God. It also contains the parable of the Good Samaritan, which arises from a conversation with a lawyer, and the account of Martha and Mary.

• Mount Gerizim

  Mount Gerizim is a mountain south of Shechem. Deuteronomy and Joshua present it as the "mountain of blessing," from which the blessing was proclaimed. It later became the center of Samaritan worship.

• Bob Pierce

  Bob Pierce (1914–1978) was an American Baptist minister and evangelist. During the Korean War he founded World Vision (formerly Korea Sunmyunghoe) together with Korean church leaders such as Han Kyung-chik, and in 1970 he founded Samaritan's Purse.

• Samaria

  Samaria was the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel in the Old Testament; in the New Testament period, the name refers to the region lying between Judea and Galilee.

• Philip the Evangelist

  Philip the Evangelist appears in the Acts of the Apostles as one of "the seven" chosen in the early Jerusalem church. He preached the gospel in Samaria and baptized the Ethiopian eunuch. He is distinct from Philip the Apostle.

• Rehum and Shimshai

  Rehum and Shimshai were officials who served in the region of Samaria during the Persian period. According to Ezra 4, they sent a letter to King Artaxerxes accusing the Jews of rebuilding Jerusalem and thereby brought the work to a halt.

• 2 Kings 17

  2 Kings 17 records the fall of Samaria to Assyria and the end of the northern kingdom of Israel under its last king, Hoshea. It explains the reasons for the kingdom's destruction and describes how the foreign peoples resettled in Samaria worshiped the LORD alongside their own gods.