Samaria is a Greece city located at the longitude of 23.94723 and latitude of 35.2773244 . Politically Galilee had been under separate administration from Judea during almost all its history since the tenth century B.C. In light of Pharisaic scruples concerning ritual purity, such behavior would seem out of place, but Rabbinic Literature is clear, Samaritan territory is [ritually] clean and its ritual immersion pools, dwellings, and paths are assumed to be [ritually] clean (Tosefta Mikvaot 6:1; Jerusalem Talmud Avodah Zarah 5:4). The woman says the promised Messiah the Christ will explain everything when he comes. while Galilee was ruled by King Herod Antipas. From all these passages, three points should be clear: 1) Jesus and His disciples were all Jewish; 2) nevertheless, they regularly traveled to and through Samaria; and 3) none of them demonstrate the least concern about Jewish-Samaritan hatred, violence, or concern about contracting ritual impurity. Christ's road from Judea to Galilee lay through Samaria. So, Israel became first a tributary kingdom of the Roman Empire, then a Roman province with the conglomeration of Samaria, Judea and Idumea. Map-showing-Galilee-Samaria-Judea.jpg John 4:5-8 - "So Jesus came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph. Moreover, the cities lie here very thick, and the very many villages there are here are every where so full of people, by the richness of their soil, that the very least of them contain above fifteen thousand inhabitants. from Egypt after the death of King Herod the Great. Galilee elevation and Samaria altitude available in elevation map. The Book of Acts records the preaching of the apostles and the great multitude of believers in that region. (apart from a period of "reunification" under the Maccabees), and in the time of Jesus it was under a (supposedly) native Herodian prince, while Judea and Samaria had since A.D. 6 been under the direct rule of a .