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#John's father's name, translated as "Zebedee", appears nowhere in the [[Old Testament]] and is most common today in [[Nigeria]], [[Africa]], which is half [[Muslim]] and half [[Christian]];

#John's father's name, translated as "Zebedee", appears nowhere in the [[Old Testament]] and is most common today in [[Nigeria]], [[Africa]], which is half [[Muslim]] and half [[Christian]];

#John's unique description of [[Jesus]] as possibly coming from the [[Samaritans]];

#John's unique description of [[Jesus]] as possibly coming from the [[Samaritans]];

#John's sympathy towards Samaritans, including describing how Jesus first disclosed his divinity to a Samaritan woman at a well (which everyone else omitted);

#John's sympathy towards Samaritans, including describing how Jesus first disclosed his divinity to a Samaritan woman at a well (which everyone else omitted), at a time when the prevailing Jewish view was that Samaritan women in particular were unclean;

#the [[Apostles]] sent the young [[John]] (along with [[Peter]]) to successfully [[evangelize]] Samaria after the [[Resurrection]], see {{bibleref|Acts|8|14}}, and Samaritans fully accepted John and his preaching despite the underlying hostility between [[Judea]]ns and [[Samaritans]];

#the [[Apostles]] sent the young [[John]] (along with [[Peter]]) to successfully [[evangelize]] Samaria after the [[Resurrection]], see {{bibleref|Acts|8|14}}, and Samaritans fully accepted John and his preaching despite the underlying hostility between [[Judea]]ns and [[Samaritans]];

#John's repeated references -- 10 times more than any other [[Gospel]] -- to "the Jews," meaning the Jewish people in and around [[Jerusalem]], was how Samaritans would have referred to their rivals;

#John's repeated references -- 10 times more than any other [[Gospel]] -- to "the Jews," meaning the Jewish people in and around [[Jerusalem]], was how Samaritans would have referred to their rivals;