The Ultimate Plot Twist?

They secretly crept into the complex late at night, through the gates that had been opened after midnight, anticipating the crowds the next day. They scattered human bones around the porticoes and courts, desecrating the temple. This brazen act of political terrorism, carried out by Samaritans in the year 6AD was recorded by Josephus in his Antiquities 11.34-46. To put it mildly, there was no love lost between the Samaritans and Jews of the day – and things hadn’t improved by Jesus’ time. Two of his disciples once called fire down from heaven on a particular Samaritan village that refused to welcome Jesus & his followers. So imagine the shock felt by those who first heard Jesus tell a story with a Samaritan as the hero! Come along to City Legal on 4 July and hear guest speaker Phil Colgan unpack this most famous of Jesus’ stories.