[353] Note 5, end of chapter. [354] Matt. 12:38, 39; compare 16:1; Mark 8:11; John 6:30; 1 Cor. 1:22. [355] John 2:19; read verses 18-22. [356] Note 6, end of chapter. [357] Mark 14:58. Page 624 herein. [358] Mark 15:29, 30. [359] John 10:38; 17:21. [360] John 2:19-22; compare 1 Cor. 3:16, 17; 6:19; 2 Cor. 6:16; see further Col. 2:9; Heb. 8:2. [361] Matt. 27:63. Page 665. [362] As Canon Farrar has tersely written, "Unless the 'we remember' was a distinct falsehood, they could have been referring to no other occasion than this." ("Life of Christ," p. 155.) [363] John 2:23-25. [364] John 3:1-21. [365] Note 7, end of chapter. [366] John 3:2; read verses 1-21. [367] Numb. 21:7-9. [368] Note 8, end of chapter. See "Articles of Faith," v:1-5. [369] John 3:22; compare 4:2. [370] Matt. 4:17; compare Mark 1:15. [371] Note 9, end of chapter. [372] John 3:25-36. [373] Note 10, end of chapter. [374] John 3:27-36. [375] Matt. 11:11. [376] Luke 3:2,3. [377] Matt. 14:3-12. [378] Matt. 4:12. CHAPTER 13. HONORED BY STRANGERS, REJECTED BY HIS OWN. JESUS AND THE SAMARITAN WOMAN. The direct route from Judea to Galilee lay through Samaria; but many Jews, particularly Galileans, chose to follow an indirect though longer way rather than traverse the country of a people so despized by them as were the Samaritans. The ill-feeling between Jews and Samaritans had been growing for centuries, and at the time of our Lord's earthly ministry had developed into most intense hatred.[379] The inhabitants of Samaria were a mixed people, in whom the blood of Israel was mingled with that of the Assyrians and other nations; and one cause of the animosity existing between them and their neighbors both on the north and the south was the Samaritans' claim for recognition as Israelites; it was their boast that Jacob was their father; but this the Jews denied. The Samaritans had a version of the Pentateuch, which they revered as the law, but they rejected all the prophetical writings of what is now the Old Testament, because they considered themselves treated with insufficient respect therein.