Common Era Synagogues
This story unveils the recent discovery of a Samaritan temple found near Mt. Gerizim that existed over a thousand years ago. The Gospel of John speaks of Samaritans as included in the redemption of those who follow Christ. Though their has been much religious controversy between followers of Judaism and those of Samaritanism since before the emergence of Christianity, Jesus reached out to both and urged a new way of worship that did not depend on a location. He declared that the time had come to worship God in “spirit and in truth.”