So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days.
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Cornelius a Lapide
AD 1637
He abode there two days: not longer, lest, if He abode longer among Samaritans, the Jews should calumniate Him, as not being the Messiah, who was promised to the Jews, rather than to the Samaritans.