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[Most Jude chose to take a detour around Samaria because of the conflict between Jude and Samaritans that had existed for centuries. The reason for this was that in the 700s BC, the Assyrians occupied this area and took away most of the Israelites (the ten northern tribes) who lived there. Five pagan peoples were then forcibly relocated there (2 Kings 17:24), and the mixed population that arose between the remaining Israelites and these peoples was called Samaritans. When the temple in Jerusalem was rebuilt in 538 BC, they were not allowed to participate because they had intermingled with other peoples, see Ezra 4. They then built their own temple in Shechem on Mount Gerizim around 425 BC. A separate Samaritan movement developed that rejected everything to do with Jerusalem. It is not a pagan belief, but is based on the Torah, written in ancient Hebr., but instead of Jerusalem, the place of worship is Gerizim. The name comes from the Hebr. shamar (to preserve, to keep) – they were preservers of Moses' teachings. John's way of describing the woman "from Samaria" (verse 7) and then Gk. samaritis (verse 9) shows the importance of her being from Samaria, but also a practitioner of the Samaritan religion. She was not only a Samaritan woman but also a Samaritan woman. Various actions on both sides caused hatred between them to grow. One hundred and fifty years before Jesus came to the city of Sychar (128 BC), the Jewish king (Hyrcanus II) razed the Samaritan temple on Gerizim to the ground and made that day a holiday. Just over twenty years before Jesus arrived there, the Samaritans had scattered dead bones in the temple in Jerusalem during the Passover celebrations, thereby defiling the temple so that the Jewish priests could not serve there.]
It was necessary [to fulfill God's plan] for Jesus to pass through Samaria.
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Nestle-Aland and Textus Receptus

ἔδει   δὲ   αὐτὸν   διέρχεσθαι   διὰ   τῆς   Σαμαρείας.  

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Strongs nr Greek English Grammar Code
G1163
 ἔδει (edei)
 It was necessary for
VERB Verb
imp. active ind. imperfect active indicative
sing. third person singular
V-IAI-3S
G1161
 δὲ (de)
 now
Conj. Conjunktion
 CONJ
G0846
 αὐτὸν (ayton)
 Him
Personal Pron. Personal Pronoun
acc. sing. ♂ accusative singular masculine
P-ASM
G1330
 διέρχεσθαι (dierchesthai)
 to pass
VERB Verb
pres. middle dep. inf. present middle or passive deponent infinitive
V-PNN
G1223
 διὰ (dia)
 through
Preposition Preposition
 PREP
G3588
 τῆς (tes)
Definite article Definite article
gen. sing. ♀ genitive singular feminine
T-GSF
G4540
 Σαμαρείας. (Samareias.)
 Samaria.
Noun Noun
gen. sing. ♀ genitive singular feminine
Location (location)
 N-GSF-L

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