Why wouldn‘t the Jews eat with the Samaritans? After all they were descendants of the Northern Kingdom who had gone into mixed marriages with those of the Canaanite tribes. They were related by birth to these people, but they would not sit down and break bread with them. Yeshua set a better example for us. Notice His actions immediately prior to this event talk about baptizing and making his disciples clean. Next He leaves Judea, comes to Galilee in the Northern Kingdom and then continues to Samaria and at about the sixth hour has a discussion with a woman at the well about living waters.
The question is what has this all got to do with you today? The answer is plenty.
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