John and his brother James oddly suggest destroying a Samaritan village for refusing to accept [[Jesus]] because He was on His way to [[Jerusalem]]. See [[Luke, Chapter 9|Luke 9:51–56]]. But this anger by John at the Samaritan village suggests that he felt betrayed by it, as a fellow Samaritan, rather than an underlying Jewish-Samaritan enmity that would not have sought hospitality from the village in the first place. | John and his brother James oddly suggest destroying a Samaritan village for refusing to accept [[Jesus]] because He was on His way to [[Jerusalem]]. See [[Luke, Chapter 9|Luke 9:51–56]]. But this anger by John at the Samaritan village suggests that he felt betrayed by it, as a fellow Samaritan, rather than an underlying Jewish-Samaritan enmity that would not have sought hospitality from the village in the first place. |