People in a Samaritan town refused to welcome Jesus.

Luke 9:51-56

51 When it was almost time for God to take Jesus up to heaven, he firmly resolved to go to Jerusalem. 52 He sent some messengers to go ahead of him, and they entered a village in Samaria district to prepare for him [SYN] to go there. 53 But the Samaritans did not like the Jews because of their insisting that it was necessary to go to Jerusalem to worship God. So, because Jesus had firmly resolved to go to Jerusalem, they would not let him come to their village. 54 When two of his disciples, James and John, heard about that, they said, “Lord, do you (sg) want us (exc) to pray that God will send fire down from heaven, as the prophet Elijah did long ago, and destroy those people?” 55 But Jesus turned and rebuked them for saying that. 56 So they went to a different village.