What is Samaria?

Considered heretical by the Jews, Samaria is dominated by Mount Gerizim, where God appears to Abraham under the oak trees. Samaritans insist that theirs is the Promise Land and that Gerizim is the only place for true worship, rather than Jerusalem, which murders the prophets. Heading for Jerusalem from a wedding in Magdala, Jesus and his disciples stop in a Samaritan village where an old women dares to slip them a loaf of bread, and a young woman draws water for them. She asks Jesus about the religious rift and if he is the Messiah, but to his relief the disciples arrive and he does not have to answer. Farmers debate the religious question and are amazed when Jesus declares all land holy, for God is everywhere.