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...
While Jesus was on the earth, His mission was only to "the lost sheep of the house of Israel" (Matthew 15:24). Thus, while He was physically present in the world, he sent the 12 (and also the seventy...
The ancient kingdom of Israel had as its capital, the city of Samaria. When the Assyrians overran Israel in 722 BCE, it became the Assyrian province of Samaria, after the main city. The Assyrians...
They were from an area north of what we now call Israel called Samaria.
When the Jewish exile ended in 538 BC and the exiles began returning home from Babylon, they found their former homeland...