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You worship that which you don`t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.
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Worship Requires Knowledge
Commentators stress that true worship is not based on sincerity or tradition alone, but on knowledge from God's self-revelation in Scripture. Jesus contrasts the Samaritans' 'ignorant' worship, which rejected the prophets, with the Jews' 'knowing' worship, which was founded upon God's Word. As John Calvin notes, without this revealed knowledge, people worship a 'phantom or idol' of their own making.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Ye worship ye know not what. This probably refers to the comparative ignorance and corruption of the Samaritan worship. Though they receiv…
That which ye know not (ο ουκ οιδατε). Cf. Acts 17:23. "You know whom to worship, but you do not know him" (Westcott). …
19th Century
Anglican
For salvation is of the Jews.—This verse has severely tested critics who seek to construct the Gospel out of their judgme…
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Baptist
The hour is coming, when you will neither in this mountain, nor yet at Jerusalem worship the Father. You worship what you do not know: we know …
Jesus avoided the argument by elevating the issue above mere location. He made no concessions and intimated that the Samaritans’ worship was confus…
16th Century
Protestant
He now explains more fully what he had briefly touched on regarding the abolition of the Law, but he divides the substance of his discourse into tw…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
You worship you know not what However, as to her question, he more directly replies by condemning the Samaritans, an…
There was great hatred between the Samaritans and the Jews. Christ's road from Judea to Galilee lay through Samaria. We should not go into places o…
13th Century
Catholic
At Jesus answered and said to her, the Evangelist gives us Christ’s spiritual teaching.
First, he gives the teaching itse…
