Samaria

 

  The photo shows the ruins of the temple of Augustus ("Augusteum") in Samaria. It was constructed by Herod the Great, as a gratitude to Caesar Augustus, who gave Herod territories as a present. 

 

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Lk 9:52-56:"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.

 

   And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did? But he turned, and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of. For the Son of man is not come to destroy men's lives, but to save them. And they went to another village".

 



 

 

 

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 Jesus was rejected in a Samaritan village    

           

 

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