Our Saviour was now going from Galilee to Jerusalem, and being to pass through. village of Samaria, he sent messengers before him to prepare entertainment for him. The Son of God, who was heir of all things, sends to, and sues for. lodging in,. Samaritan cottage.

Oh blessed Saviour, how can we be abased enough for thee, who thus neglected thyself fo us! It was thy pleasure to appear, not in the figure of. prince, but in the form of. servant, yet the people in the Samaritan village would not receive him!

Strange! To hear the Son of God sue for. lodging, and be denied; but the reason was, the difference of religion which was between the Jews and the Samaritans: the Jews worshipped at the temple of their own, built upon Mount Gerizim. Upon the building of this new temple there arose so great. feud between the Jews and the Samaritans, and in the process of time such an implacable hatred, that they would not show. common civility to one another.. Samaritan's bread to. Jew, was no better than swine's flesh; they would rather thirst than drink. draught of Samaritan water.

Hence we learn, that no enmity is so desperate as that which arises from matters of religion.

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