There are 751 modern day Samaritans. They live mostly in Tel Aviv and surrounding areas and they speak Hebrew and Arabic. The Samaritans prefer the term Isrealites to describe themselves.
When Assyrian settlers mixed with Israelites still living in Israel, Samaritans developed a hybrid religion.
They were Jews.
No - Paul felt a special calling to go to the gentiles and preach the Good News of Jesus to them. Answer 2: It was before (and not after) his conversion that Paul was persecuting Jewish Christians (not Gentiles). Then he had a special experience on the road to Damascus which turned his life around.
To keep them from mixing with gentiles
Jewish, some being Samaritans and Hellenists. This was soon followed by Greeks (or Gentiles). This is recorded in the book of Acts in the New Testament.
Jesus mostly met with Jews, and on rare occasions with Samaritans. Paul went primarily to the Gentiles.
The gentiles were any people that were not Israelites. So anyone that was not from the nation of Israel was considered a gentile. The Samaritans on the other hand were a people resulting from the intermixing of Israelites and Canaanites. During the Assyrian captivity some of the Israelites were left in the region of Samaria (the former capital of Israel). There were not a sufficient number of Israelites to remain separate and perpetuate the people so they intermarried with the native people of Canaan. This intermarriage was not allowed by Jewish law. Since the Samaritans had intermarried the Jewish people rejected them as Israelites. This lead the Samaritans to set up a temple of their own on Mt Gerazim. This caused an additional reason for the reject of the Samaritans by the Jewish people (who claimed that all must worship at the temple in Jerusalem).
Samaritans
The motto of Samaritans of Singapore is 'To be an available lifeline to anyone in crisis.'.
The Jews hated the Samaritans because the Samaritans were Jews that intermarried with Gentiles. They considered them not equal and a lower caste.
; ; * These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not: But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. Matthew 10:5-6
Good Samaritans - 2012 was released on: USA: 14 January 2012
There are 751 modern day Samaritans. They live mostly in Tel Aviv and surrounding areas and they speak Hebrew and Arabic. The Samaritans prefer the term Isrealites to describe themselves.
I know of no patron saint of the gentiles. However, St. Paul is called the Apostle of the Gentiles.
Bad Samaritans - 2013 was released on: USA: 31 March 2013 (internet)
Good Samaritans - 2011 was released on: USA: 1 January 2011 (internet)