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Did the Samaritans receive Jesus?
A Samaritan village rejects Jesus in Luke, while people in John's Samaritan city welcome him; neither response is universalized.
- Textual conflict
- Weak contradiction
- The supplied passages do not establish incompatible claims. Different events, meanings, or conditions may account for the difference.
- Importance
- Supporting
- A supporting event, teaching, or biographical claim.
Different Samaritan communities on different visits can welcome and reject Jesus without disagreement.
An editorial assessment of the quoted passages. Importance describes the stakes; it does not increase certainty. Reading order weighs both.
One Samaritan village refuses Jesus passage and hospitality
And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him. And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.
Luke 9:52-53
Translation / edition: King James Version (KJV)
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Samaritans in another account invite Jesus to stay
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.
John 4:39-40