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{{See also|Mystery: Was John a Samaritan}}''?''

{{See also|Mystery: Was John a Samaritan}}''?''

'''Samaritans''' today are a people of mixed ethnicity who live in [[Israel]], who practice a religion having similarities and differences to the [[Jewish faith]]. They accept as their canon the [[Torah]] and the [[Book of Joshua]], as do [[Christian]]s, while rejecting other [[Jewish]] [[Scriptures]].

'''Samaritans''' today are a people of mixed ethnicity who live in [[Israel]], who practice a religion having similarities to and differences with the [[Jewish faith]]. They accept as their canon the [[Torah]] and the [[Book of Joshua]], as do [[Christian]]s, while rejecting other [[Jewish]] [[Scriptures]].

Samaritans had a large population of three million at the time of [[Jesus]],<ref name="Samaritans">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/5/20/i-hope-there-are-still-samaritans-in-the-future</ref> and the Samaritan versus Jewish rivalry then was analogous to the Palestinian versus Jewish conflict today.  Samaritans reject emigrating to other lands, and today do not consider themselves to be Palestinian or Jewish.<ref name="Samaritans"/> Some may wonder if Jesus was a Samaritan,<ref>https://johnmarkum.org/was-jesus-a-samaritan/</ref> while [[John the Apostle]] likely was.

Samaritans had a large population of three million at the time of [[Jesus]],<ref name="Samaritans">https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/5/20/i-hope-there-are-still-samaritans-in-the-future</ref> and the Samaritan versus Jewish rivalry then was analogous to the Palestinian versus Jewish conflict today.  Samaritans reject emigrating to other lands, and today do not consider themselves to be Palestinian or Jewish.<ref name="Samaritans"/> Some may wonder if Jesus was a Samaritan,<ref>https://johnmarkum.org/was-jesus-a-samaritan/</ref> while [[John the Apostle]] likely was.