These were the Twelve whom Jesus sent out after he had given them these instructions: "Don't turn on to the road that leads to the unbelievers, and don't enter Samaritan towns.

So he sent messengers on ahead of him. On their way they went into a Samaritan village to get things ready for him.

But as he was traveling along, a Samaritan came across the man. When the Samaritan saw him, he was moved with compassion.

He fell on his face at Jesus' feet and thanked him. Now that man was a Samaritan.

A Samaritan woman came to draw water, and Jesus told her, "Please give me a drink,"

The Samaritan woman asked him, "How can you, a Jew, ask for a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" Because Jews do not have anything to do with Samaritans.

Jesus told her, "Believe me, dear lady, the hour is coming when you Samaritans will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem.

Now many of the Samaritans of that town believed in Jesus because the woman had testified, "He told me everything I've ever done."

So when the Samaritans came to Jesus, they asked him to stay with them, and he stayed there for two days.

The Jewish leaders replied to him, "Surely we're right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon, aren't we?"

Now when the apostles in Jerusalem heard that Samaritans had accepted the word of God, they sent Peter and John to them.

After they had given their testimony and spoken the word of the Lord, they started back to Jerusalem, continuing to proclaim the good news in many Samaritan villages.