John P. Meier, «The Historical Jesus and the Historical Samaritans: What can be Said?», Vol. 81 (2000) 202-232

Careful analysis of the Gospels shows that there is not very much hard data about the historical Jesus’ interaction with or views about the Samaritans. There is multiple attestation, found in the Lucan and Johannine traditions, that Jesus, different from typical views of his time, held a benign view of Samaritans and had positive, though passing, encounters with some Samaritans. However, there is gospel agreement, from silence or statement, that Jesus had no programmatic mission to the Samaritans. Besides the above important conclusions, this essay also makes clear the useful distinction between Samaritans and Samarians.

thus quite real. 3. Luke mentions Samaritans both in narratives about Jesus and in the words of Jesus⁴¹:

        (a) The narrative material includes the healing of the ten lepers, one of whom turns out to be a Samaritan (Luke 17,11-19). Actually, it is only in the second half of this story that the one grateful recipient of healing, who returns to thank Jesus, is said to be a Samaritan (v. 16b). In Volume Two of A Marginal Jew, I noted how the opposition of the one grateful Samaritan and the blasé attitude of the other nine (presumably Jews) may foreshadow Luke’s story of the spread of the Christian gospel as told in the Acts of the Apostles: the persecution of Christians in Jerusalem leads to a mission to Samaria (8,2-25)⁴².